Proverbs 7:9
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
10Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
Cross References
Exodus 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose 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 →