New Revised Standard Version
they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits’ end.

Contemporary English Version
You staggered like drunkards and gave up all hope.

New American Bible
They reeled, staggered like drunkards; their skill was of no avail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

stagger

Job 12:24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

Isaiah 29:9 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

are at their wit's end.

Job 37:20 Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Isaiah 19:3 And 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.

Acts 27:15-20 And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven. . . .