Proverbs 26:27
He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
In Context
28A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Psalms 7:15He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 9:15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
Proverbs 28:10He who causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit. But the perfect shall inherit good.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:25-27
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. There is cause to complain, not only of the want of sincerity in men's profession of friendship, and that they do not love so well as they pretend nor will serve their friends so much as they promise, but, which is much worse, of wicked designs in the… Read the whole commentary →