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 dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Isaiah 19:14
LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 29:9
Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind. 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 that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel of it. And they shall seek for the idols, and for the charmers, and for those who have familiar spirits, and for the wizards.

General references

Psalm 89:9
Thou rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still them.