27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. …
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27)See here, 1. What pains men take to do mischief to others. As they put a force upon themselves by concealing their design with a profession of friendship, so they put themselves to a great deal of labour to bring it about; it is digging a pit , it is rolling a stone , hard work, and yet men will not stick at it to gratify their passion and revenge. 2. What preparation they hereby make of mischief…
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