Psalms 107:27
They are tossed to and from, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.
28Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresse.
Cross References
Job 12:25They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man.
Isaiah 19:3And the spirite of Egypt shall faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsell, and they shall seeke at the idoles, and at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits of diuination, and at the southsayers.
Isaiah 24:20The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.
Acts 27:15And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.
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 →