Wisdom 17:12

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

Wisdom 17:12 In-Context

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.

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,