‘And he drank of the wine and became drunk, and was uncovered within his tent.'
In a drunken state Noah lies naked in his tent, unaware of the impropriety of his situation. In his right mind he would never have done this for he knew men might enter the tent, and to be seen naked was a shameful thing ever since man's first sin. There may be a suggestion in this that Noah once more reveals sinful man's ‘nakedness' by his weakness in misusing the wine, another sign of disobedience to God. And there is certainly a warning here of what carelessness with wine can do even to the ‘perfect' man.