Wisdom 17:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

¹⁶ For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.

¹⁷ For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,