Proverbes 6:5

5 Dégage-toi comme le daim de la main du chasseur, et comme l'oiseau de la main de l'oiseleur.

Proverbes 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.

Proverbes 6:5 In-Context

3 Mon fils, fais promptement ceci: dégage-toi; puisque tu es tombé entre les mains de ton prochain, va, prosterne-toi, et supplie ton prochain.

4 Ne donne point de sommeil à tes yeux, ni de repos à tes paupières;

5 Dégage-toi comme le daim de la main du chasseur, et comme l'oiseau de la main de l'oiseleur.

6 Paresseux, va vers la fourmi, regarde ses voies, et deviens sage.

7 Elle n'a ni chef, ni surveillant, ni maître,