Proverbs 26:27
Whoever is digging a pit falls into it, || And the roller of a stone, it turns to him.
Literal Standard 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
26Hatred is covered by deceit, || Its wickedness is revealed in an assembly.
28A lying tongue hates its bruised ones, || And a flattering mouth works an overthrow!
Cross References
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
Psalms 7:15He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, || And he falls into a ditch he makes.
Psalms 9:15Nations have sunk in a pit they made, || Their foot has been captured in a net that they hid.
Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps, || My soul has bowed down, || They have dug a pit before me, || They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Proverbs 28:10Whoever is causing the upright to err in an evil way, || He falls into his own pit, || And the perfect inherits good.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, || For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, || 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 →