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 feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
Isaiah 19:14
Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
Isaiah 29:9
Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.

Are at their wits' end

Job 37:20
Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
Isaiah 19:3
And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.

General references

Psalm 89:9
Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.