Psalm 107:27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards; they were at their wits' end.

◄ Psalm 107:27 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They reeled and staggered like drunkards; they were at their wits' end.

English Standard Version
they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end.

New American Standard Bible
They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, And were at their wits' end.

King James Bible
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
they reeled and staggered like drunken men, and all their skill was useless.

International Standard Version
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless.

American Standard Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end.

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

Darby Bible Translation
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

Young's Literal Translation
They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

107:23-32 Let those who go to sea, consider and adore the Lord. Mariners have their business upon the tempestuous ocean, and there witness deliverances of which others cannot form an idea. How seasonable it is at such a time to pray! This may remind us of the terrors and distress of conscience many experience, and of those deep scenes of trouble which many pass through, in their Christian course. Yet, in answer to their cries, the Lord turns their storm into a calm, and causes their trials to end in gladness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

27. are … end—literally, "all their wisdom swallows up itself," destroys itself by vain and contradictory devices, such as despair induces.