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«He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.»

«I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.»

«If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can't you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?»

«Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.»

«For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; / When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; / I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.»

«I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: / Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.»

«He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; / He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.»

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

«If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit. (Matthew 15:14)»

«He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.»