Good News Translation
They were chased by hideous forms and lay paralyzed as they surrendered themselves to the sudden, unexpected fear that came over them.

New Revised Standard Version
And whoever was there fell down, and thus was kept shut up in a prison not made of iron;

Contemporary English Version
because of the horrible and unexpected nightmares brought on by the surrender of their souls to the forces of evil.

New American Bible
Thus, then, whoever was there fell into that prison without bars and was kept confined.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover, if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

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

Wisdom 17:13
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 17:14
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 17:16
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.

Wisdom 17:17
For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,