Proverbs 6:5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Cross-references
Proverbs 1:17 says a net is vain when set in a bird's sight — same imagery of avoiding a trap as the bird escaping the fowler here.
In Proverbs 4:15, the command to 'avoid it, turn from it' echoes the urgent call to escape danger in Proverbs 6:5.
Psalm 124:7 uses the exact 'bird escaping fowler' image — a direct parallel of deliverance from a snare.
In Genesis 19:15, Lot is urgently told to flee Sodom — a parallel call to escape destruction without delay.
In Matthew 24:17, Jesus warns to flee immediately from the housetop — the same urgent necessity to escape without delay.
In 2 Timothy 2:22, Paul commands 'flee youthful lusts' — a spiritual application of the escape principle in Proverbs 6:5.
In Jeremiah 48:6, the call to 'flee, save your lives' during judgment parallels the escape imagery in Proverbs 6:5.