Question: Which book compares the beauty of a woman to that of a roe (fawn)?
Answer: Song of Solomon (Song of Solomon 4:5)
Comments: In the poetic verse of Song of Solomon 4:5, the male speaker compares his female lover's breasts to that of two "roes" (KJV) or the more commonly translated "fawns" (AMP, ASV, ESV, HCSB, Message, NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, RSV). The simile is repeated in verse 7:3.
"Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies." (Song of Solomon 4:5, NASB)
Just to be clear, this was intended and taken as a compliment. The CEV renders the analogy simply, "Your breasts are perfect..."
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