Proverbs 6:5

5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:5 in Other Translations

5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.

5 Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper! A Lesson from the Ant

5 Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a fowler's trap.

Proverbs 6:5 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 6:5

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter]
As such a creature, which is very swift, when it is got into the hand of the hunter, will strive and struggle to get out; so should a man try all ways and means to get out of his suretyship engagements, especially when he finds himself liable to danger by it; this he should do "immediately" and "out of hand" ^F7, as the phrase here used sometimes signifies with the Jewish writers; and as a bird from the hand of the fowler;
another metaphor, signifying the same thing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (dym) "statim", De Dieu; "subito", Noldius, p. 606. No. 1630. "ilico, repente", so some in Eliae Tishbi, p. 143.

Proverbs 6:5 In-Context

3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion—and give your neighbor no rest!

4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Samuel 2:18
• 2. Isaiah 13:14
• 3. S Psalms 91:3