Good News Translation
When you lack the confidence to rely on reason, you give in to the fears caused by ignorance.

New Revised Standard Version
But throughout the night, which was really powerless and which came upon them from the recesses of powerless Hades, they all slept the same sleep,

Contemporary English Version
They no longer think straight, and their only hope is to deny the real source of their problems.

New American Bible
So they, during that night, powerless though it was, since it had come upon them from the recesses of a powerless Hades, while all sleeping the same sleep,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep,

But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep,

Wisdom 17:11
For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.

Wisdom 17:12
And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.

Wisdom 17:14
Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.

Wisdom 17:15
Moreover, if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.