Ecclesiastes 10:8

New Living Translation

When you dig a well, you might fall in. When you demolish an old wall, you could 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, went to his hometown, set his affairs in order, and hanged himself. He died there and was buried in the family tomb.

2 Samuel 18:15

Ten of Joab’s young armor bearers then surrounded Absalom and killed him.

Esther 7:10

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

Psalm 57:6

My enemies have set a trap for me. I am weary from distress. They have dug a deep pit in my path, but they themselves have fallen into it. Interlude

Proverbs 11:6

The godliness of good people rescues them; the ambition of treacherous people traps them.

Proverbs 26:27

If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax.

Amos 5:19

In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion— only to meet a bear. Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house— and he’s bitten by a snake.

Amos 9:3

Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will search them out and capture them. Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the sea serpent after them to bite them.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s home at Ophrah, and there, on one stone, they killed all seventy of his half brothers, the sons of Gideon. But the youngest brother, Jotham, escaped and hid.