Ecclesiastes 10:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order, and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright saves them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Whoever quarries stones will be hurt by them; and whoever splits logs will be endangered by them.

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear; or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the sea-serpent, and it shall bite them.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone; but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.