Amos 5:19

American Standard Version (1901)

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Cross References

Acts 28:4

And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

Joshua 10:18

And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10:3

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?