Proverbs 26:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Proverbs 28:10

Those who mislead the upright into evil ways will fall into pits of their own making, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

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

Esther 7:10

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

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.