Proverbs 7:8
And speaking, in the dark of the evening, 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
In Context
7Passing by the corner in the passages near her house, 1
9When there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness: 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king’s house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Proverbs 5:8Remove thy way far from her; 1 Draw not near to the doors of her house: 1
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 →