John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 10:8

Verſ. 8. Hee that diggeth a pit ſhall fall into it] As heedleſs hunts-men do. Hee that being of baſe beginning, and unmeet for Government, ſeeks to ſet up himſelf upon better mens ruines, and where hee findes not a way, to make it, ſhall fall from his high hopes into remedileſſe miſery, as hee hath made a match with miſchief, ſo he ſhall have his belly-full of it. As hee hath conceived with guile, ſo (though hee grow never ſo big) hee ſhall bring forth nothing but vanity, and worſe, Job 15.35.

Prov. 23.32 And whoſo breaketh an hedge] The hedge of Gods Commandements (as our firſt Parents did, to come to the forbidden fruit) a Serpent bites ſuch, and the poyſon cannot be gotten out. Others ſenſe it thus (and I rather incline) Hee that ſeeks to over-throw the Fundamental Lawes, and eſtabliſhed Government of a Common-wealth, and to break down the fences and mounds of Soveraignty and ſubjection, ſhall no leſſe (but much more) imperil himſelf, than hee that pulls up an old hedge, wherein Serpents, Snakes, and Adders, doe uſually lurk and lye in wait to doe miſchief.Speed. Wat Tiler the rebel dared to ſay, that all the Lawes of England ſhould come out of his mouth. Strafford uttered ſomewhat to the like ſenſe in Ireland. Our good Lawes are our hedges, ſo our Oathes ([non-Latin text not transcribed] quaſi [non-Latin text not transcribed]) Let us look to both, or wee are loſt people. Det Deus ut admonitio haec adeo ſit nobis omnibus commoda quam ſit accommoda.