Proverbs 7:9
In the twilight—in the evening of day, || In the darkness of night and blackness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
In Context
8Passing on in the street, near her corner, || And the way [to] her house he steps,
10And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,
Cross References
Exodus 12:6And it has become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel has slaughtered it between the evenings;
Job 24:15And the eye of an adulterer || Has observed the twilight, || Saying, No eye beholds me. And he puts the face in secret.
Ephesians 5:11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,
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 →