Proverbs 7:9
In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
Cross References
Exodus 12:6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove 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 →