They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
Acts 27:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And as we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As we were being dangerously tossed about by the violence of the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard; American Standard Version (1901) And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard; Common English Bible We were so battered by the violent storm that the next day the men began throwing cargo overboard. Catholic Public Domain Version Then, since we were being tossed about strongly by the tempest, on the following day, they threw the heavy items overboard. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And we being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship. |
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship.
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,