Proverbs 28:10
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
The verse belongs to the collection of Solomon's proverbs in chapters 25-29 gathered in Hezekiah's time, about three hundred years after Solomon. It has the form of a proverb, a brief pointed saying that states a familiar truth. It warns that whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall himself into the pit or ruin he prepared, while the upright shall possess good things.
The upright are those who walk uprightly in humility, obedience and trust in God and keep His commandments, and they will receive good. The word pit denotes destruction rather than a place of conscious torment, showing that the wicked come to destruction. On a prophetic level, the misleader is Satan, who persecuted the righteous and destroyed their home, and his pit is confinement on the desolate earth at the beginning of the thousand years while the righteous are safe.
The verse belongs among texts exposing false prophets and affirming the continuing authority of God's law and Sabbath. The warning applies to professing religious people who reject God's law and oppose commandment keepers; their hardness of heart and self-deception bring them into mischief that ruins themselves. The warning applies to those who publicly oppose God's final message and thereby lead others astray, so that they suffer the consequence of their own wrongdoing.