Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

New American Standard Bible

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.

King James Version

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Holman Bible

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

International Standard Version

He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.

A Conservative Version

He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

American Standard Version

He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Amplified


He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.

Julia Smith Translation

He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make.

King James 2000

He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made.

Modern King James verseion

He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.

NET Bible

he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

New Heart English Bible

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

The Emphasized Bible

A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:

Webster

He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch which he made.

World English Bible

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

14 Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood. 15 A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. 16 Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.


Cross References

Job 4:8

As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

Psalm 119:85

The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.

Esther 7:10

And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

Job 6:27

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

Psalm 9:15-16

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Psalm 10:2

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

Psalm 35:7-8

For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

Psalm 57:6

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Psalm 94:13

To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

Psalm 140:9-10

The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

Psalm 141:10

The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Ecclesiastes 10:8-9

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

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