Proverbs 30:28
the lizard takes hold with her hands, yet she is in kings' palaces.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In Context
27the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands,
29There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going:
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29And these are those which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:25-29
Four Things Little and Wise. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four… Read the whole commentary →