Proverbs 7:9

THE MESSAGE

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark.

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

⁶As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters, Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived, then turning up the path to her house. It was dusk, the evening coming on, the darkness thickening into night. Just then, a woman met him— she'd been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him. Brazen and brash she was, restless and roaming, never at home, Walking the streets, loitering in the mall, hanging out at every corner in town. ¹³She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly took his arm and said, "I've got all the makings for a feast— today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid, So now I've come to find you, hoping to catch sight of your face—and here you are! I've spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed, colorful imported linens. My bed is aromatic with spices and exotic fragrances. Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking! My husband's not home; he's away on business, and he won't be back for a month." ²¹Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech. Before you know it, he's trotting behind her, like a calf led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured into ambush and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over.

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 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Galatians 3:28
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.

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.