Proverbs Chapter 26 verse 27 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
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BBE Proverbs 26:27

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.
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DARBY Proverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
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KJV Proverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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WBT Proverbs 26:27


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WEB Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
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YLT Proverbs 26:27

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. This thought is found often elsewhere; e.g., Psalm 7:16; Psalm 9:16; Ecclesiastes 10:8; Ecclus. 27:25, 26. The pit is such a one as was made to catch wild animals; the maker is supposed to approach incautiously one of these traps, and to tall into it. And he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. This does not refer to throwing stones into the air, which fall upon the head of the thrower, but to rolling stones up a height in order to hurl them down upon the enemy (comp. Judges 9:53; 2 Samuel 11:21). Of such retributive justice we have numerous examples;e.g., Haman hung on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai (Esther 7:9, etc.). So the old story tells how Perillus, the inventor of the brazen bull in which prisoners were to be burned alive, was himself made to prove the efficacy of his own invention by the tyrant Phalaris; as Ovid says "Et Phalaris tauro violenti membra PerilliTorruit; infelix imbuit auctor opus."(Art. Amat.,' 1:653.) So we have, "Damnosus aliis, damnosus est sibi;" Ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη. St. Chrysostom speaks of the blindness of malice: "Let us not plot against others, lest we injure ourselves. When we supplant the reputation of others, let us consider that we injure ourselves, it is against ourselves that we plot. For perchance with men we do him harm, if we have power, but ourselves in the sight of God, by provoking him against us. Let us not, then, injure ourselves. For as we injure ourselves when we injure our neighbours, so by benefiting them we benefit ourselves" ('Hom. 14, in Phil.,' Oxford transl.).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein,--A simile taken from hunters making pits as traps for wild animals. The same doctrine of retribution being brought upon the sinner's head by God the righteous Judge is taught in Psalm 7:11, sqq.