Proverbes 23:33

33 Tes yeux se porteront sur des étrangères, Et ton coeur parlera d'une manière perverse.

Proverbes 23:33 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 23:33

Thine eyes shall behold strange women
Being inflamed with wine, shall look upon women, other men's wives, and lust after them; or harlots, whom seeking after or meeting with, when in their cups, are drawn into their embraces; excess of wine leads to whoredom {w}. So Aben Ezra supplies the word "women", and Jarchi interprets it to this sense; but the Targum renders it, "strange things"; and so many others: a drunken man, through the lunges and vapours that ascend into his brain, fancies he sees strange sights; he sees things double; imagines that he sees trees walk, and many such like absurd and monstrous things; and thine heart shall utter perverse things;
or the mouth, from the abundance of the heart, and imagination of it, shall utter things contrary to sense and reason, contrary to truth and righteousness, contrary to chastity and good manners, contrary to their own honour and credit, contrary to God and men; the mouth then utters all that is in the heart, which it at other times conceals. It may have a particular respect to the unchaste, filthy, and obscene words, uttered to strange women, into whose company men fall when in liquor.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 "Vina parant animos Veneri", Ovid. de Arte Amandi, l. 1.

Proverbes 23:33 In-Context

31 Ne regarde pas le vin qui paraît d'un beau rouge, Qui fait des perles dans la coupe, Et qui coule aisément.

32 Il finit par mordre comme un serpent, Et par piquer comme un basilic.

33 Tes yeux se porteront sur des étrangères, Et ton coeur parlera d'une manière perverse.

34 Tu seras comme un homme couché au milieu de la mer, Comme un homme couché sur le sommet d'un mât:

35 On m'a frappé,... je n'ai point de mal!... On m'a battu,... je ne sens rien!... Quand me réveillerai-je?... J'en veux encore!