Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Holman Bible
and all their skill was useless.
International Standard Version
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless.
A Conservative Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Amplified
They staggered and trembled like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end [all their wisdom was useless].
Bible in Basic English
They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
Darby Translation
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:
Julia Smith Translation
They will reel and stagger as he intoxicated, and all their wisdom will be swallowed down.
King James 2000
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.
Modern King James verseion
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They reel to and fro, they stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
NET Bible
They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
New Heart English Bible
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
The Emphasized Bible
They reel and stagger, like a drunken man, and, all their wisdom, is engulfed,
Webster
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
World English Bible
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Youngs Literal Translation
They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 107:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance
26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end. 28 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Isaiah 19:14
Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth 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.
Job 37:20
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Acts 27:15-20
and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.