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Écclésiaste 10:8

Celui qui creuse une fosse y tombera, et un serpent mordra celui qui fait brèche à une clôture.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fence;   Pit;   Serpent;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fall;   Insecurity of the Wicked;   Righteous-Wicked;   Security-Insecurity;   Serpents;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hedges;   Serpents;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Fence;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hedge;   Serpent;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ecclesiastes;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Serpent;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hedge;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gardens;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fence;   Serpent;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - AḥiḴar;   Dinah;   Ecclesiastes, Book of;   Magdala;   Serpent;   Simeon ben Yoḥai;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for August 18;  

Parallel Translations

Louis Segond (1910)
Celui qui creuse une fosse y tombera, et celui qui renverse une muraille sera mordu par un serpent.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Celui qui creuse la fosse, y tombera; et celui qui coupe la haie, le serpent le mordra.
Darby's French Translation
Qui creuse une fosse y tombe; et qui renverse une cl�ture, un serpent le mord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Judges 9:5, Judges 9:53-57, 2 Samuel 17:23, 2 Samuel 18:15, Esther 7:10, Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16, Proverbs 26:27

a serpent: Amos 5:19, Amos 9:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:33 - General Proverbs 11:6 - but Proverbs 11:18 - wicked Proverbs 23:32 - biteth Proverbs 28:10 - he shall Jeremiah 18:20 - digged Habakkuk 2:7 - bite

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it,.... This and the three following clauses are proverbial expressions, teaching men to be wise and cautious, lest by their conduct they bring mischief upon themselves; as it often is, the one that digs a pit for another, falls into it himself, as the wise man's father before him had observed, Psalms 7:15; as kings that lay snares for their people, and subjects that plot against their sovereign; or courtiers that form schemes for the rain of those that are in their way; or any man that devises mischief against another, frequently so it is, that the same befalls them; as Haman, who prepared a gallows for Mordecai, was hanged on it himself;

and whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent shall bite him; which often lies hid in fences, in old walls, and rotten hedges s, Amos 5:19; so he that breaks down the hedges and fences of kingdoms and commonwealths, and breaks through the fundamental laws of a civil constitution, and especially that transgresses the laws of God, moral or civil, may expect to smart for it. Jarchi interprets this hedge of the sayings of their wise men, which those that transgress shall suffer death by the hand of heaven: but it would be much better to apply it to the doctrines contained in the word of God, which are a hedge and fence to the church of God, and whoever transgress them will suffer for it; see 2 John 1:8; The Targum, by the "serpent", understands an ungodly king, who bites like a serpent, into whose hands such transgressors shall be delivered: and some have thought of the old serpent the devil, as Alshech, who deceived Adam and Eve.

s Nicander apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 1. c. 4. col. 26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The figures seem to be taken from the work of building up and pulling down houses. In their general application, they recommend the man who would act wisely to be cautious when taking any step in life which involves risk.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Breaketh an hedge - Rather: “breaks through a wall.”

Serpent - The habit of snakes is to nestle in a chink of a wall, or among stones (compare Amos 5:19).

Ecclesiastes 10:9

Be endangered - Rather: “cut himself.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 10:8. Whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him. — While spoiling his neighbour's property, he himself may come to greater mischief: while pulling out the sticks, he may be bit by a serpent, who has his nest there. Some have supposed that נחש nachash here means a thorn; perhaps from the similarity of its prick to the serpent's sting. He who forces his way through a hedge will be pricked by the thorns.


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