Proverbs 26:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it shall 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 Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Esther 9:25

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

Psalm 10:2

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 57:6

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

Psalm 9:15

The nations 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 upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit: But the perfect shall inherit good.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, 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.