Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
King James Version
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Holman Bible
and whoever rolls a stone—
it will come back on him.
International Standard Version
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and the stone will come back on whoever starts it rolling.
A Conservative Version
He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.
American Standard Version
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
Amplified
Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
Julia Smith Translation
He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.
King James 2000
Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.
Modern King James verseion
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.
NET Bible
The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone -- it will come back on him.
New Heart English Bible
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
The Emphasized Bible
He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.
Webster
Whoever diggeth a pit shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
World English Bible
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.
Interlinear
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Galal
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
26
Even though his hatred is covered up in the desert, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
27
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
Cross References
Proverbs 28:10
Whosoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit, but the perfect shall inherit every good thing.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Psalm 7:15-16
He made a pit and deepened it and shall fall into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15
The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken.
Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that digs a pit shall fall into it, and whosoever breaks a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.