Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Are at their wits' end

General references

Bible References

Stagger

Job 12:25
They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in its midst, and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 29:9
Become ye dumb, and make others dumb; become ye blind, and blind others: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Are at their wits' end

Job 37:20
Shall it be told him when I speak? When someone is swallowed up shall it be told him?
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers and to the spiritists and to the wizards.

General references

Psalm 89:9
Thou dost rule the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou dost still them.