Proverbs 6:5
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
In context
2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. 4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; 5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 6:5 in the KJV
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 6:5 in the NIV
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.