箴言 26:27

Chinese Union (Simplified)

挖 陷 坑 的 ， 自 己 必 掉 在 其 中 ； 滚 石 头 的 ， 石 头 必 反 滚 在 他 身 上 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
挖掘陷坑的，自己必掉在其中；輥石頭的，石頭必輥回自己身上。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

diggeth: Proverbs 28:10, Esther 7:10, Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:15, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 57:6, Ecclesiastes 10:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 18:20 - digged

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein,.... That devises mischief against others, it shall come upon himself. The allusion is to the digging of pits for catching wild beasts, which are slightly covered with earth; and which sometimes the pursuers, through inadvertency, fall into themselves; the passage seems to be taken from Psalms 7:15;

and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him; that rolls a stone up hill, if he does not take care, it will return back, and fall with great force upon himself; so the mischief which a wicked man labours hard at, as men do in digging a pit, or rolling a stone, in time rolls back upon themselves; the measure they mete out to others is measured to them. Jarchi makes mention of an "hagadah", or exposition, which illustrates this passage, by the case of Abimelech; who slew threescore and ten persons on one stone, and was himself killed with a piece of a millstone cast upon him, Judges 9:18; this may put in mind of the fable of Sisyphus o, feigned in hell to roll a great stone to the top of a mountain, which presently falling down on his head, made his labour fruitless.

o "Aut petis aut urges ruitum, Sisyphe, saxum", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 4. v. 460.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rolleth a stone - The illustration refers, probably, to the use made of stones in the rough warfare of an earlier age. Compare Judges 9:53; 2 Samuel 11:21. The man is supposed to be rolling the stone up to the heights.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:27. Whoso diggeth a pit — Psalms 7:15. There is a Latin proverb like this: Malum consilium consultori pessimum, "A bad counsel, but worst to the giver." Harm watch; harm catch.