²⁷ They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

³ The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

¹⁴ Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

⁹ Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

²⁰ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

¹⁵ When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

¹⁶ Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

¹⁷ After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

¹⁸ As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

¹⁹ On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

²⁰ When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small tempest pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.