Proverbios 6:5

5 líbrate como la gacela de la mano del cazador, y como ave de la mano del que caza.

Proverbios 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.

Proverbios 6:5 In-Context

3 haz esto ahora, hijo mío, y líbrate, ya que has caído en la mano de tu prójimo: ve, humíllate e importuna a tu prójimo;

4 no des sueño a tus ojos ni adormecimiento a tus párpados;

5 líbrate como la gacela de la mano del cazador, y como ave de la mano del que caza.

6 Ve, mira la hormiga, perezoso, observa sus caminos, y sé sabio.

7 La cual sin tener jefe, ni oficial ni señor,