Psalm 107:27 {106:27}
Good News Translation
they stumbled and staggered like drunks--all their skill was useless.

New Revised Standard Version
they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits’ end.

Contemporary English Version
You staggered like drunkards and gave up all hope.

New American Bible
They reeled, staggered like drunkards; their skill was of no avail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

stagger

Job 12:24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

Isaiah 29:9 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

are at their wit's end.

Job 37:20 Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

Acts 27:15-20 And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven. . . .

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
26They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils. 27They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.28And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.…
Cross References
Job 12:25
They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Psalm 107:28
And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.

Isaiah 24:20
With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Psalm 107:26
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