Proverbs 26:27 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁷ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Whoever digs a pit [for another man's feet] shall fall into it himself, and he who rolls a stone [up a height to do mischief], it will return upon him. [Ps. 7:15, 16; 9:15; 10:2; 57:6; Prov. 28:10; Eccl. 10:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Those who dig a pit will fall in it; those who roll a stone will have it turn back on them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Proverbs 26:27 Cross References

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mor´decai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalm 9:15

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.