Proverbs 26:27
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him.
Catholic Public Domain 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
26Whoever covers hatred with deceit, his malice shall be revealed in the assembly.
28A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger was quieted.
Psalms 7:15Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
Psalms 9:15You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.
Psalms 57:6who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
Proverbs 28:10Whoever deceives the just in a malicious way will fall into his own perdition. And the simple shall possess his goods.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because their words and their plans are against the Lord, in order to provoke the eyes of his majesty.
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 →