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

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Bible References

Stagger

Job 12:25
They will feel darkness and not light, and he will cause them to wander as one intoxicated.
Isaiah 19:14
Jehovah mingled in the midst of her a spirit of perversities) and they caused Egypt to wander in all its works as the intoxicated wanders in his vomit
Isaiah 29:9
Linger ye, and wonder; delight yourselves, and be ye blinded; they were drunken and not with wine; they reeled and not with strong drink.

Are at their wits' end

Job 37:20
Shall it be recounted to him that I shall speak? If a man spake, then shall he be swallowed down.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.

General references

Psalm 89:9
Thou ruling over the lifting up of the sea: in the lifting up of its waves thou wilt soothe them.