Ecclesiastes 10:8

WEB

⁸He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

KJV

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

BSB

⁸He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

FBV

⁸If you ^[+] dig a pit, you could fall in. If you knock down a wall, you could be bitten by a snake.

Extra References

Proverbs 26:27

²⁷Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Psalms 7:15-16

¹⁵He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made. ¹⁶The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Amos 5:19

¹⁹As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

Esther 7:10

¹⁰So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

²³When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Psalms 9:15-16

¹⁵The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. ¹⁶The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Amos 9:3

³Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Judges 9:53-57

⁵³A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

⁵⁴Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”

⁵⁵When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place. ⁵⁶Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers; ⁵⁷and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

Judges 9:5

⁵He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

2 Samuel 18:15

¹⁵Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.