Ecclesiastes 10:8

English Standard Version 2016

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Amos 9:3

If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Amos 5:19

as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Judges 9:5

And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them.