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then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
    go, hasten,[a] and importune your neighbor.
Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,[b]
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
  2. Proverbs 6:5 Cn: Heb hand

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