Proverbs 7:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Proverbs 7:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Job 24:13-15
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
Romans 13:12-14
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. …
Genesis 39:11
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Exodus 12:6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-23)

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. The time, twilight, ending in darkness. black ... night--literally, “pupil,” or, “eye,” that is, middle of night.