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New Century Version

Proverbs 7:9

It was the twilight of the evening; the darkness of the night was just beginning.

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 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

6 Once while I was at the window of my house I looked out through the shutters 7 and saw some foolish, young men. I noticed one of them had no wisdom. 8 He was walking down the street near the corner on the road leading to her house. 9 It was the twilight of the evening; the darkness of the night was just beginning. 10 Then the woman approached him, dressed like a prostitute and planning to trick him. 11 She was loud and stubborn and never stayed at home. 12 She was always out in the streets or in the city squares, waiting around on the corners of the streets. 13 She grabbed him and kissed him. Without shame she said to him, 14 "I made my fellowship offering and took some of the meat home. Today I have kept my special promises. 15 So I have come out to meet you; I have been looking for you and have found you.

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
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.
Genesis 7:9
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.
Genesis 7:12
The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:16
One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace. Lions will eat hay like oxen, and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone. They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain," says the Lord .
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don't know what the Lord wants them to do.
Galatians 3:28
In Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek, slave and free person, male and female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important.

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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