Proverbs 26:27
Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
Updated King James 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
26Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
28A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Psalms 7:15He made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Proverbs 28:10Whoso causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the 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 →