Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled {his} ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. {followed: Heb. done} {put his...: Heb. gave charge concerning his house}

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, {being} threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness {shall be} a sure reward.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in {their own} naughtiness.

Whoso causeth 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.

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, {and} to turn away thy wrath from them.

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. {an...: or, a cockatrice}

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;