Proverbs 6:5 {6}
Good News Translation
Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

New Revised Standard Version
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Contemporary English Version
Save yourself, just as a deer or a bird tries to escape from a hunter.

New American Bible
Free yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, or like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

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Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

as a bird

Proverbs 1:17 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Psalm 124:7 Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
4Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 5Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:6Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,…
Cross References
Psalm 91:3
For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.

Psalm 124:7
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Songs 2:7
I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 2:9
My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Proverbs 6:4
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