Simple verse list for WIS 17:11

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OET (OET-RV) (WIS 17:12) Because fear is nothing else but a surrender of the help which reason offers;

OET-LV (WIS 17:12) none for he_is fear, if not ⟦προδοσία⟧ the/this/who away_from ⟦λογισμοῦ⟧ ⟦βοηθημάτων⟧.

WEBBE For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, ⇔ and, being pressed hard by conscience, always has added forecasts of the worst.

DRA For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.

RV [fn] For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, ⇔ And, being pressed hard by conscience, always [fn] forecasteth the worst lot:

KJB-1769 For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.

KJB-1611 For wickednesse condemned by her owne witnesse, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, alwayes forecasteth grieuous things.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl For whi drede is no thing, no but help of presumpcioun, and schewyng of thouyt of helpis.
(For why dread is no thing, no but help of presumption, and showing of thought of helps.)

BrLXX Δειλὸν γὰρ ἰδίως πονηρία μαρτυρεῖ καταδικαζομένη, ἀεὶ δὲ προσείληφε τὰ χαλεπὰ συνεχομένη τῇ συνειδήσει.

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