Proverbs 26:27

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Esther 7:10

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

Esther 9:25

But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king gave written orders that Haman’s evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

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)

Psalm 9:15

The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

Proverbs 28:10

The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

Proverbs 5:22

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

Isaiah 3:11

Too bad for the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.