Proverbs 23:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Ver. 33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women.] See Trapp on " Pro 23:29 " Venter aestuans mero, spumat in libidinem, saith Jerome. A belly filled with wine, foameth out filthiness. Wine is the milk of Venus, a saith another. Drunkenness is the gallery that lechery walketh through, saith a third. b

Thine heart shall utter perverse things.] Preposterous, distorted, dislocated matters: soliciting thy neighbour's wife to wickedness; or otherwise vomiting out that which God hateth, and godly men abhor.

a Aφροδιτης γαλα. - Arist.

b Vina parent animos Veneri. - Ovid.

Proverbs 23:33

33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.