Ecclesiastes 10:8

New English Translation

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the faithless will be captured by their own desires.

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone – it will come back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

Amos 5:19

Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

Amos 9:3

Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, because he hid.