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 darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion;
They have led Egypt astray in all that it does,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 29:9
Be delayed and wait,
Blind yourselves and be blind;
They become drunk, 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 say that he would be swallowed up?
Isaiah 19:3
“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confound their strategy,
So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead
And to mediums and spiritists.

General references

Psalm 89:9
You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

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