Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

Then Ahithophel, seeing that his counsel had not been done, saddled his donkey, and he rose up and went away to his own house and to his own city. And putting his house in order, he killed himself by hanging. And he was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him.

Esther 7:10

"Remember," he said, "the days of your lowliness, how you were nurtured as if in my hand, because Haman, who is second after the king, has spoken against us to death.

Psalm 57:6

who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.

Proverbs 11:6

The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery.

Proverbs 26:27

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

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Whoever carries away stones will be harmed by them. And whoever cuts down trees will be wounded by them.

Amos 5:19

It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.

Amos 9:3

And if they were hiding at the top of Carmel, when searching there, I would steal them away, and if they conceal themselves from my eyes in the depths of the sea, I will command the serpent there and he will bite them.

Judges 9:5

And he went to his father's house in Ophrah, and he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone. And there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, and he was in hiding.