Ecclesiastes 10:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He who digs a pit [for others] will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence or a [stone] wall, a serpent will bite him. [Ps. 57:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

Common English Bible

⁸ Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever tears apart a hedge, a snake will bite him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 Cross References

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright saves them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Whoever quarries stones will be hurt by them, and whoever splits logs will be endangered by them.