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Proverbs 7:9

The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Concealment-Exposure;   Darkness;   Works;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Night;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Black;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apple of the Eye;   Color;   Even;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calendar;   Chastity;   Eye;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
at twilight, in the evening,in the dark of the night.
Hebrew Names Version
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
English Standard Version
in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
New Century Version
It was the twilight of the evening; the darkness of the night was just beginning.
New English Translation
in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
Amplified Bible
In the twilight, in the evening; In the black and dark night.
New American Standard Bible
In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and the darkness.
World English Bible
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the twilight, in the evening of that day,In the middle of the night, and in the thick darkness.
Berean Standard Bible
at twilight, as the day was fading, into the dark of the night.
Contemporary English Version
One of these young men turned the corner and was walking by the house of an unfaithful wife.
Complete Jewish Bible
Dusk turns into evening, and finally night, dark and black.
Darby Translation
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
George Lamsa Translation
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;
Good News Translation
in the evening after it was dark.
Lexham English Bible
at twilight, at the day's evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.
Literal Translation
in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
in the twylight of of the euenynge, when it begane now to be night and darcke.
American Standard Version
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Bible in Basic English
At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
King James Version (1611)
In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the twylight of the euening, when it began nowe to be night and darke:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:
English Revised Version
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
goith niy the weie of hir hous in derk tyme, whanne the dai drawith to niyt, in the derknessis and myst of the nyyt.
Update Bible Version
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
New King James Version
In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.
New Living Translation
It was at twilight, in the evening, as deep darkness fell.
New Life Bible
in the light of the evening, after it was dark.
New Revised Standard
in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the midst of the night, and the gloom;
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.
Revised Standard Version
in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Contextual Overview

6 One day I was looking out my window 7 at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all. 8 He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house. 9 The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark. 10 Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him. 11 She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home. 12 She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap. 13 She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said, 14 "I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give, 15 and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the twilight: Genesis 39:11, Job 24:13-15, Romans 13:12-14, Ephesians 5:11

evening: Heb. evening of the day, Exodus 12:6, *marg.

Reciprocal: Job 24:15 - eye

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:16
All these animals went into the boat in groups of two, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind Noah.
Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and little lambs will eat together. Lions will eat hay like cattle, and snakes will eat only dust. They will not hurt or destroy each other on my holy mountain." This is what the Lord said.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the birds in the sky know the right time to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to fly to a new home. But my people don't know what the Lord wants them to do.
Galatians 3:28
Now, in Christ, it doesn't matter if you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or free, male or female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
In this new life it doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, circumcised or not. It doesn't matter if you speak a different language or even if you are a Scythian. It doesn't matter if you are a slave or free. Christ is all that matters, and he is in all of you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. Which is the usual time adulterers take to commit their works of darkness in, by which they think to conceal them; they being such as they themselves do not care should be seen and known, Job 24:15; their works will not bear the sun and daylight, therefore they take the twilight and when the sun is set; and choose the night, and not light nights neither, but the blackest and darkest nights, as fittest for their purpose; most likely to meet with harlots, and less liable to be seen by their neighbours; but always to be seen by the omniscient God, with whom the darkness and the light are both alike. Perhaps these several words may express the time from the young man's first setting out to his drawing nigh to the harlot's house, and his being attacked and ensnared by her; when he first set out from his own or his father's house, it was "twilight", the sun was declining; by that time he had got good part of his way the sun set, and then it was "evening"; and when he came near the harlot's house it was "black [and] dark night": and this may represent the gradual and progressive growth of Popery; there was first a "twilight", a decline of the purity of Gospel light and knowledge, and then the sun of the Gospel set, which brought on an "evening", and issued in the gross "darkness" of Popery, represented by the Thyatirian church state, as before observed; since that, the "morning star" of the Reformation has appeared, but this is become obscure, we are in a twilight again; it is neither day nor night with us as yet, but a dark black night is hastening on; and it is easy to observe how many, like this foolish young man, are marching on in a stately manner to the harlot's house, or are verging to Popery, whether they design it or not.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:9. In the twilight, in the evening — Some time after sun-setting; before it was quite dark.

In the black and dark night — When there were neither lamps nor moon-shine.


 
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