Proverbs 6:5 (BSB)

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:1-5: It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:5: Go to the ant, thou sluggard,.... That art become surety for another, and got into a snare and net, and yet takest no pains to get out. Or this may be directed, not to the surety, but the debtor; who, through his slothfulness, has contracted debts, and uses no industry to be in a capacity to pay them.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:1-5: Pro 6:1-5 The author warns against suretyship; or rather, he advises that if one has made himself surety, he should as quickly as possible withdraw from the snare. 1 My son, if thou hast become surety for thy neighbour, Hast given thy hand for another: 2 Thou art entangled in the words of thy mouth, Ensnared in the words of thy mouth.