He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
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
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.
to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.