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Proverbs 7:9

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,

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:

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BSB
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
KJV
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
WEB
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
ASV
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
DARBY
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
BLB
in the twilight, in the evening [of] the day, in the pupil of night and darkness.
ÅB
i skumringen, da dagen var til ende, i dyp natt og mørke.
OTB
i skumringen, om kvelden, i nattens mørke.
B1930
i skumringen, da dagen var til ende, i dyp natt og mørke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 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.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • Ephesians 5:11

    And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

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  • 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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