Amos 5:19

New International Version

It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Acts 28:4

When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Deuteronomy 32:24

I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Joshua 10:18

he said, “Roll large rocks up to the mouth of the cave, and post some men there to guard it.