Psalms 107:27
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
In Context
26They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.
28And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.
Cross References
Job 12:25They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
Isaiah 19:3And 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.
Isaiah 24:20With 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 fell, and not rise again.
Acts 27:15And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:24-33
The Divine Goodness to Mariners. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 24 These see the works of the Lord , and his wonders in the deep. 25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted 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 the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth… Read the whole commentary →