What does Wisdom Chapter 17 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Wisdom 17 praises God's great judgments and inexpressible words, linking undisciplined souls with error. Those planning dominion over the holy nation became housebound in darkness and long night, exiled from eternal providence. Concealed sins, forgetfulness, astonishment, frightening noises and sad visions follow; dens did not prevent fear and neither fire nor stars gave light. Sudden dreadful fire and fear of an unseen face made what they saw seem worse. Magic delusions were defeated and wisdom boasts rebuked; would-be healers of fearful souls themselves suffered laughable fear.

The passage says passing beasts and serpent hisses frightened them even without a terrible disturbance, and some died from fear denying the unavoidable air. It describes wickedness witnessing condemnation, troubled conscience forecasting grievous things, fear relinquishing thought's supports and diminished inward expectation exaggerating the unknown cause. These remain the text's descriptions, not a clinical diagnosis or a voluntary choice assigned to everyone with fear.

A night from deepest hell prevented activity; sleep was troubled by feared monsters and fainting. Fallen people were imprisoned without irons; husbandmen, shepherds and field laborers could not flee. One darkness-chain bound them, and wind, birdsong, violent water, tumbling stones, unseen beasts playing, wild roars and mountain echoes caused swooning. The world had clear light and unhindered labor, while their heavy night imaged darkness to come and they were more grievous to themselves than darkness. Three-day duration, urban magistrates, self-ignited fire, closed eyes, lions and a universal comparison with every physical affliction are not supplied.