Ecclesiastes 10:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 26:27 : 27 He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
  • Amos 9:3 : 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
  • Judg 9:5 : 5 Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.
  • Judg 9:53-57 : 53 But a certain woman sent a great stone, such as is used for crushing grain, on to the head of Abimelech, cracking the bone. 54 Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place. 56 In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death; 57 And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.
  • 2 Sam 18:15 : 15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made 16 His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken. 16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

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    27 He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

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    15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

    16 His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

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    10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

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  • Exod 21:33-34
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    33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

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    11 If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

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    19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

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    15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

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    17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

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  • Ps 10:9-10
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    9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

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  • Prov 23:32
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    32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

  • Job 20:16
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    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • Prov 6:15
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  • Isa 8:15
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    7 I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

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    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

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