There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:(Ecclesiastes 10:5)

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.(Ecclesiastes 10:6)

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.(Ecclesiastes 10:7)

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

Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.(Ecclesiastes 10:9)

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.(Ecclesiastes 10:10)

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.(Ecclesiastes 10:11)

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Ecclesiastes 10:8 - Cross Reference

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. (Amos 5:19)

And ten young men that bare Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. (2 Samuel 18:15)

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. (Psalm 7:15)

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

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. (Judges 9:5)

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. (Psalm 9:15)

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: (Amos 9:3)

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. (Judges 9:53)

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. (2 Samuel 17:23)