Ecclesiastes 10:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

If you dig a pit, you might fall in; if you break down a wall, a snake might bite you.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:27

If you dig a pit, you will fall in; if you start a stone rolling, it will roll back on you.

Esther 7:10

At once, Haman was hanged on the gallows he had built to hang Mordecai, and the king calmed down.

Amos 9:3

If they escape to the peaks of Mount Carmel, I'll search and find them. And if they hide from me at the bottom of the ocean, I'll command a sea monster to bite them.

Amos 5:19

You will run from a lion, only to meet a bear. You will escape to your house, rest your hand on the wall, and be bitten by a snake.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that Absalom and the leaders of Israel were not going to follow his advice, he saddled his donkey and rode back to his home in Gilo. He told his family and servants what to do. Then he hanged himself, and they buried him in his family's burial place.

Judges 9:5

Abimelech and his soldiers went to his father's home in Ophrah and brought out Gideon's other sons to a large rock, where they murdered all 70 of them. Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid from the soldiers, but he was the only one who escaped.

2 Samuel 18:15

Ten of Joab's bodyguards came over and finished him off.

Psalm 57:6

Enemies set traps for my feet and struck me down. They dug a pit in my path, but fell in it themselves.

Proverbs 11:6

Honesty can keep you safe, but if you can't be trusted, you trap yourself.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

You could even get hurt by chiseling a stone or chopping a log.