Proverbs 6:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴^(A)Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,^[a]
^(B)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶^(C)Go to ^(D)the ant, O ^(E)sluggard;
consider her ways, and ^(F)be wise.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

Proverbs 6:4-6

New International Version

⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.^(A)
⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle^(B) from the hand of the hunter,^(C)
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.^(D)