Ecclesiastes 10:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The one who digs a pit may fall into it, and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone – it will come back on him.

Esther 7:10

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.  Then the king’s anger subsided.

Amos 9:3

If they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will track them down and seize them; if they conceal themselves from my sight on the sea floor, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.

Amos 5:19

It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realised that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his home town. He set his house in order and hanged himself.  So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid.

2 Samuel 18:15

ten young men who were Joab’s armour-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

The one who quarries stones may be hurt by them; the one who splits logs may be endangered by them.