Darby's translation notes (1890)
Proverbs 7:9
7:9 blackness (c-12) Lit. 'eye-ball,' 'apple,' as ver. 2; Psalms 17:8 .
7:9 blackness (c-12) Lit. 'eye-ball,' 'apple,' as ver. 2; Psalms 17:8 .
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_....
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
TWILIGHT. darkness.. _Homonym._ See note on 1 Samuel 30:17. EVENING. evening of the day....
_black and dark night_ Lit. IN THE PUPIL (of the eye) OF THE NIGHT, AND THE DARKNESS. The Heb. word for _pupil_is the same as that rendered _apple_(of thine eye), Proverbs 7:2. It is used again poetic...
IN THE TWILIGHT, &C.— Or, _In the twilight, in the close of the day; when night and darkness were yet in embryo,_ or _just beginning._...
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: IN THE TWILIGHT, IN THE EVENING - (Hebrew, in the evening of the day). IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT - literally, 'in the blackness,' or...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
Twilight ends suddenly, and is followed by dense darkness....
The young man was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Even when we are strong, we might think wrong thoughts. However, when we are weak, evil ideas can tempt us more easily. Night was beginning. T...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
IN THE TWILIGHT... — He has no excuse of sudden temptation to offer; from twilight till dark night he had trifled with danger, and now at last his “calamity comes” (Proverbs 6:15)....
בְּ נֶֽשֶׁף ־בְּ עֶ֥רֶב יֹ֑ום בְּ אִישֹׁ֥ון
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
In the twilight, in the evening, in the (c) black and dark night: (c) He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causi...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corne...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
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...
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: Ver. 9. _In the black and dark night._] Thinking to obscure himself; but Solomon saw him, how much more God, _cui obscura patent, muta re...
_For I looked through my casement_ Hebrew, בעד אשׁנבי, _per fenestellam meam, my little window_, or _lattice_, rather. For “in Palestine they had no glass to their windows: they closed them with latti...
in the twilight, in the evening, IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, the heaping of expressions fitting the actions of the young man as belonging to the works of darkness;...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
IN THE EVENING: _ Heb._ in the evening of the day...
6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after...
IN THE EVENING; when the day labour being ended, he was at leisure for any thing; and when such strumpets used to walk abroad for prey. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT; when it begun to be black and dark....
Proverbs 7:9 twilight H5399 evening H3117 H6153 black H380 dark H653 night H3915 the twilight -...
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE ‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's actions (Pro...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
Proverbs 7:1. _Keep my words lay up my commandments._ These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 7:6 The SIMPLE and the YOUNG stumble into adultery by putting themselves in the wrong place (v. Proverbs 7:8
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:7. SIMPLE, “inexperienced.” PROVERBS 7:8. WENT, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” PROVERBS 7:9. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and li...
Ephesians 5:11; Exodus 12:6; Genesis 39:11; Job 24:13; Romans 13:12