Proverbs 6:5
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
7 Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- KJV
- Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- WEB
- Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- ASV
- Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- DARBY
- deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- BLB
- snatch yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- ÅB
- frels deg som et rådyr av jegerens hånd og som en fugl av fuglefangerens hånd!
- OTB
- Redd deg selv som en gaselle fra jegerens hånd,
og som en fugl fra snaren til fuglefanger. - B1930
- frels dig som et rådyr av jegerens hånd og som en fugl av fuglefangerens hånd!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 91:3
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
Read in contextPsalms 124:7
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Read in contextProverbs 1:17
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Read in context