Ecclesiastes 10:8

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What does Ecclesiastes 10:8 mean?

Ecclesiastes 10:8 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 10:8

• Proverbs 26:27

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

• Psalms 7:15-16

  He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

• Esther 7:10

  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

• Amos 5:19

  As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

• Psalms 9:15-16

  The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

• 2 Samuel 17:23

  And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

• Amos 9:3

  And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

• Judges 9:53-57

  And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: …

• Judges 9:5

  And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

• 2 Samuel 18:15

  And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 10:7

  I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

• Ecclesiastes 10:8

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:9

  Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

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