Job 37:20

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

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

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

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

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

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?