Proverbs 7:9

In 11 translations

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:in the evening: Heb. in the evening of days

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.

LSV

In the twilight—in the evening of day, || In the darkness of night and blackness.

YLT

In the twilight — in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

DBY

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

DRC

In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,

GNV

In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

JPS

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

LXXE7:8

and speaking, in the dark of the evening, when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:

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Original-language editions

WLC

בְּנֶֽשֶׁף־בְּעֶ֥רֶב י֑וֹם בְּאִישׁ֥וֹן לַ֝֗יְלָה וַאֲפֵלָֽה׃

LXX-Br7:8

παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς, καὶ λαλοῦντα ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ, ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ καὶ γνοφώδης,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 13:12–14The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual…
• Job 24:13–15Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the…
• Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
• Genesis 39:11One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.
• Exodus 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

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