Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
BSB
ASV
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
KJV
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 11:8 (PS 7) (379)
We do not find the name of "pit" ever assigned in the divine Scriptures in the case of something good or a "well" of water in the case of something bad. As to the reason for the pits being assigned among the worse things and the wells among the better, we think it is this.
He made a pit and digged it,.... That is, he digged a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes; and is fallen into the ditch which he made; so it is said of the Heathen, Psa 9:15; and is exemplified in the case of Haman, who was hanged upon the gallows he had built for Mordecai.
He made a pit - The allusion here is undoubtedly to a method of hunting wild beasts which was common in ancient times. It consists in digging a pit-fall, and covering it over with brush and grass so as to deceive the animals, and then enclosing them and driving them into it. See the notes at Isa 24:17. And digged it - And hollowed it out so as to be large enough to contain his prey, and so deep that he could not escape if he fell into it.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Through
Proverbs 26:27He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
leads to
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.