Holy Scripture
Proverbs 6:5
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5That thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, And as a bird out of a snare.
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3My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; For on thy friend’s account thou art come into the power of evil men: Faint not, But stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety.
4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber with thine eyelids;
— Proverbs 6:5 —
6Go to the ant, O sluggard; And see, and emulate his ways, And become wiser than he.
7For whereas he has no husbandry, Nor anyone to compel him, And is under no master,