Wisdom 17:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars.

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Common English Bible

¹⁶ All who fell into that kind of place became like prisoners, locked up in cells without metal bars.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For if a farmer, or a shepherd, or a worker in a field of labor were suddenly overcome, he endured an inescapable necessity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Good News Translation (US Version)

¹⁶ People would suddenly collapse and lie locked in the chains of their own fear.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

¹⁶ So then whoever it might be, sinking down in his place, was kept captive, shut up in that prison which was not barred with iron;

Wisdom 17:16 Cross References