Proverbs 7:9
It was at dusk in the evening, as the light was fading and the dark night closed in.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8He was walking down the street near the corner where she lived and took the road passing her house.
10Then out came a woman to meet him. She was dressed as a prostitute and had deceptive intentions.
Cross References
Exodus 12:6Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.
Job 24:15The adulterer waits for dusk, saying to himself, ‘No one will see me now,’ and he covers his face.
Ephesians 5:11Don't have anything to do with the pointless things that darkness produces—instead 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 →