Wisdom Principles—He Who Seeks Evil for Others Will Receive It Himself

Deuteronomy 19:18-19

The judges will make a careful enquiry, and if it turns out that the witness is a liar and has made a false accusation against his brother, ¹⁹you must treat the witness as he would have treated his brother. 

Esther 9:25

when he went back to the king to ask him to order the hanging of Mordecai, the wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews recoiled on his own head, and both he and his sons were hanged on the gallows

Job 4:8

I speak from experience: those who plough iniquity and sow disaster, reap just that.

Psalm 7:15-16

He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he falls into the snare he made himself. ¹⁶His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skull.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have fallen into the trap they made, their feet caught in the snare they laid.

Psalm 35:7-8

Unprovoked they laid their snare for me, unprovoked dug a trap to kill me. ⁸Ruin comes upon them unawares; the snare they have laid will catch them, and into their own trap they will fall.

Psalm 57:6

They dug a pit ahead of me, but fell in it themselves.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall each into his own net

Proverbs 1:31

They will have to eat the fruits of their own ways of life, and choke themselves with their own scheming.

Proverbs 5:22

The wicked is snared in his own misdeeds, is caught in the meshes of his own sin.

Proverbs 11:27

Whoever looks for evil will get an evil return.

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice reaps disaster

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit falls into it, the stone comes back on him that rolls it.   

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever seduces the honest to evil ways will fall into his own pit.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit falls into it, he who undermines a wall gets bitten by a snake

Sirach 7:3

My child, do not sow in the furrows of wickedness, for fear you have to reap them seven times over.

Sirach 27:25-27

A treacherous blow cuts both ways. ²⁶The man who digs a pit falls into it, whoever sets a snare will be caught by it. ²⁷On anyone who does evil, evil will recoil, without his knowing where it comes from.

Hosea 8:7

Since they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind

Hosea 10:13

You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of falsehood

2 Corinthians 9:6

Anyone who sows sparsely will reap sparsely

Galatians 6:7-8
Don't delude yourself: God is not to be fooled; whatever someone sows, that is what he will reap. ⁸If his sowing is in the field of self-indulgence, then his harvest from it will be corruption