Ecclesiastes 10:8
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
In Context
7I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.
9Whoso is removing stones is grieved by them, Whoso is cleaving trees endangered by them.
Cross References
Judges 9:53and a certain woman doth cast a piece of a rider on the head of Abimelech, and breaketh his skull,
2 Samuel 18:15And they go round — ten youths bearing weapons of Joab — and smite Absalom, and put him to death.
Psalms 7:15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Psalms 9:15Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Amos 5:19As [when] one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 10:5-12
Mutual Duties of Princes and Subjects. 4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. 5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. 9 Whoso removeth stones… Read the whole commentary →