Wisdom 17:11

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

Wisdom 17:11 In-Context

9 For though no terrible thing did fear them, yet, being scared with beasts that passed by and hissing of serpents,

10 they died from fear, denying that they saw the air, which could from no side be avoided.

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.