Ecclesiastes 10:8

New International Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten of Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.

Esther 7:10

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.

Psalm 57:6

They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Whoever quarries stones may be injured by them; whoever splits logs may be endangered by them.

Amos 5:19

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.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.