“Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand, etc. Just as a gazelle seeks to escape from the hand of the captor, strive so much that, with your listener being healthily instructed, you are freed from the surety of his life. Or certainly, because the gazelle is by nature a pure animal, swift in running, and most keen…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
— Proverbs 6:5 —
6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: