Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Fausets

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

14 Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment: 15 A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made: 16 His mischief, turneth back, on his own head, - and, on his own crown, his violence, descendeth.

Cross References

Job 4:8

So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

Psalm 119:85

Insolent men digged for me pits, men who are not according to thy law.

Proverbs 26:27

He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, - and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.

Job 6:27

Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!

Psalm 9:15-16

The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.

Psalm 10:2

In the pride of the lawless one, he hotly pursueth the poor, let them be caught in the plots which they have devised!

Psalm 35:7-8

For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net, - Without cause, have they digged a pit for my life.

Psalm 57:6

A net, did they fix for my steps, My soul was bowed down, - They digged before me a pit, They fell into the midst thereof! Selah.

Psalm 94:13

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged - for the lawless one - a pit.

Psalm 140:9-10

As for the head of them who surround me, Let the mischief of their lips cover them:

Psalm 141:10

They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

Ecclesiastes 10:8-9

He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, may fall, - and, he that breaketh through a hedge, there may bite him a serpent.

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall, evil, be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my life, - Remember how I stood before thee To speak in their behalf what was good! To turn back thine indignation from them.

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