Bible verse

Proverbs 6:5

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

Proverbs 6:5 · BSB

Proverbs 6:5 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 6.

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

2 if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

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.

5 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,

8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Read all of Proverbs 6

Proverbs 6:5 in other translations

KJV

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand 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.

ERV

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

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