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Proverbs 6:5

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 6:5 in other translations

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

Proverbs 6:5 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 6:5 in context

  1. 3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
    since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
    Go, humble yourself.
    Press your plea with your neighbor.
  2. 4Give no sleep to your eyes,
    nor slumber to your eyelids.
  3. 5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
    like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
  4. 6Go to the ant, you sluggard.
    Consider her ways, and be wise;
  5. 7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,