Proverbs 7:9
At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
Cross References
Exodus 12:6Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.
Job 24:15And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
Ephesians 5:11And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →