Wisdom 17:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ For whether he was a farmer or a shepherd
    or a laborer toiling in the wilderness,
he was overtaken to suffer the inescapable fate,
^{18     [a]}for a single chain of darkness bound all.
And whether it was merely the whistling wind,
    or the melodious sound of birds in the spreading branches,
or the steady rhythm of rushing water,
¹⁹     or the violent crash of cascading rocks,
or the unseen gallop of leaping animals,
    or the roaring of savage wild beasts,
or an echo reverberating from the hollow of the mountains,
    it immobilized them with fear.