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Proverbs 6:5

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6:5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare,14

and like a bird from the trap15 of the fowler.

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Footnotes

  1. 14 Heb “from the hand.” Most translations supply “of the hunter.” The word “hand” can signify power, control; so the meaning is that of a gazelle freeing itself from a snare or a trap that a hunter set.
  2. 15 Heb “hand” (so , , ). Some and versions have it as “trap,” which may very well represent an interpretation too.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,

like a bird from a hunter’s trap.

NLTNew Living Translation

Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,

like a bird fleeing from a net.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand,

or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

KJV 1900King James Version

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,

And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.