Proverbs 7:9
He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
Cross References
Exodus 12:6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. And the entire multitude of the sons of Israel shall immolate it toward evening.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer waits for darkness, saying, “No eye will see me,” and he covers his face.
Ephesians 5:11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
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 →