Proverbs 26:27 (BSB)

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

From Proverbs 26. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 26:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 26:27: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 26:27: A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it,.... That is, a man of a lying tongue, that is given to lying, hates those that are hurt and crushed by his lies; the reason why he hurts them with his lies is because he hates them; and, having hurt them, he hates them, being made his enemies, and from whom he may expect and...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 26:27: Pro 26:27 27 He who diggeth a pit falleth therein; And he that rolleth up a stone, upon himself it rolleth back. The thought that destruction prepared for others recoils upon its contriver, has found its expression everywhere among men in divers forms of proverbial sayings; in the form which it here receives, 27a has its oldest original in Psa 7:16, whence it is repeated...