Thou makest darkness, and it is night,.... The darkness was before the light, and the night before the day, Ge 1:2 and now the darkness and night are made by the setting of the sun before mentioned; see Isa 45:7.
Wherein all the beasts of the field do creep forth; out of their dens, and range about for their prey, as the evening wolves and others: and these are not the only creatures that choose the night and darkness; all wicked men do the same; whose deeds are evil, and do not care to come to the light, lest they should be reproved; particularly drunkards, adulterers, thieves, and murderers, Joh 3:20.