Ecclesiastes 10:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and the one who breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He who digs a pit [for others] will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence or a [stone] wall, a serpent will bite him. [Ps. 57:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

Common English Bible

⁸ Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever tears apart a hedge, a snake will bite him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice was not followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his own city. He gave instruction to his household, then he hanged himself and died; he was interred in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten young men, armor bearers for Joab, gathered around and struck down Absalom, killing him.

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, but they have fallen into it themselves.   Selah

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be caught by their desires.

Proverbs 26:27

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:9

The one who quarries stones will be hurt by them, and the one who splits wood will be endangered by it.

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled away from a lion, but a bear attacked him, or got into the house and rested his hand on the wall, but a snake bit him.

Amos 9:3

though they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will search and catch them; though they hide from My sight on the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent to bite them;

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal, on a single stone. Yet Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, survived because he hid himself.