«يَا فَاحِتِ الْبِيرْ وِمْغَطِّيهْ لَا بُد مِنْ وُقُوعَكْ فِيهْ»

The proverb warns that anyone who secretly lays a trap for someone else will end up caught in it. The image is a pit dug and covered over as a disguised trap, not an ordinary well, so the plotter becomes the victim of his own concealed scheme.

It is spoken as a direct address to the schemer, giving it the tone of a warning or reproach. It expresses confidence that deceit carries its own consequences, predicting that harm done through hidden plots will return to its author rather than calling down harm on anyone.

Use it to warn someone quietly plotting against another person, or afterward to comment on a schemer whose plan has backfired. Its direct address makes it pointed, suiting a rebuke or knowing remark; it predicts consequences rather than wishing harm, so avoid using it as a curse.