Wisdom 17:2-4

Wycliffe Bible

² For the while wicked men hold for steadfast, (so) that they may be lords of (the) holy nation, they were fettered with bonds of darknesses, and of long night, and were closed under roofs; and they fugitives were subject to everlasting purveyance. [While forsooth wicked men have full proved, to be able to lordship to the holy nation, in bonds of darknesses, and of long night gyved, enclosed under roofs, fugitive to perpetual providence, pleased.]

³ And the while they guess them(selves) to be hid in (their) dark sins, they were scattered by (the) dark hiding of forgetting, dreading hideously, and disturbed (or troubled) with full great wondering. [And while they guess them to lurk in dark sins, by the dark veil of forgetting they be scattered, dreading grisfully, and with full much wondering disturbed.]

⁴ For the den that withheld them, kept not without dread; for why sound coming down disturbed (or troubled) them, and sorrowful persons appearing to them, gave dread to them. [Nor forsooth the den that held them, without dread kept; for descending sound disturbed them, and dreary persons appearing to them, gave inward fear to them.]