Wisdom 17:13

13 And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

Wisdom 17:13 In-Context

11 For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and, being pressed by conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.

12 For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succors which reason offereth.

13 And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

14 But they, sleeping the same sleep that night which was indeed intolerable and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,

15 were partly vexed by monstrous apparitions and partly fainted, their heart failing them; for a sudden fear, and not looked for, came upon them.