Ecclesiastes 10:8

One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Amos 5:19

Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone -- it will come back on him.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father's home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal's youngest son, escaped, because he hid.

Judges 9:53-57

a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten soldiers who were Joab's armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king's rage then abated.

Psalm 7:15-16

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

Psalm 9:15-16

The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

Amos 9:3

Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

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Summary

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

A serpent

General references

Bible References

That

Judges 9:5
He went to his father's home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, the seventy legitimate sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal's youngest son, escaped, because he hid.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
2 Samuel 18:15
Then ten soldiers who were Joab's armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king's rage then abated.
Psalm 7:15
he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
Psalm 9:15
The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
Proverbs 26:27
The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone -- it will come back on him.

A serpent

Amos 5:19
Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Amos 9:3
Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

General references

Exodus 21:33
"If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

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