Proverbs 26:27

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Esther 7:10

And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Esther 9:25

But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.[2]

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

Psalm 57:6

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

Psalm 9:15

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

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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.[4]