Proverbs 6:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 91:3 : 3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
  • Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 6:6-11
    6 verses
    77%

    6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

    7Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

    8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

    9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 6:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

    3Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

  • Ps 124:7
    76%

    7Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

  • Prov 7:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

    23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Prov 1:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

    10Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

  • Ps 91:3
    72%

    3He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

  • Amos 3:5
    71%

    5Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

  • Job 6:23
    71%

    23Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

  • Amos 2:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

    15And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

  • Job 18:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Prov 22:5
    70%

    5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Amos 5:19
    70%

    19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Ps 11:1
    70%

    1<For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

  • Jer 48:6
    69%

    6Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.

  • Prov 2:16
    69%

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

  • Prov 12:27
    69%

    27He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

  • Prov 2:12
    69%

    12Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

  • Prov 27:8
    69%

    8Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

  • Prov 24:11
    69%

    11Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    69%

    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Job 22:10
    68%

    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Song 8:14
    68%

    14Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Prov 4:15
    68%

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Prov 3:26
    68%

    26For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

  • Deut 22:6
    68%

    6If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

  • Prov 22:25
    68%

    25For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

  • Ps 31:4
    68%

    4Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

  • Prov 5:19
    68%

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

  • Ps 10:9
    68%

    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Exod 21:13
    68%

    13But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

  • Ps 140:5
    67%

    5The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)