Proverbs 26:27
Good News Translation
People who set traps for others get caught themselves. People who start landslides get crushed.

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

Contemporary English Version
If you dig a pit, you will fall in; if you start a stone rolling, it will roll back on you.

New American Bible
Whoever digs a pit falls into it; and a stone comes back upon the one who rolls it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

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Proverbs 28:10 He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Psalm 7:15,16 He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made. . . .

Psalm 9:15 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 10:2 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 57:6 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
26He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly. 27He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.28A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.…
Cross References
Esther 7:10
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Psalm 57:6
They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Proverbs 28:10
He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Proverbs 26:26
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