Proverbs 26:27

Modern English Version

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

Cross References

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have planned.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, but they have fallen into it themselves.   Selah

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he himself will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit good.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory.