Proverbs 30:28
You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In Context
27The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;
29There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;
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 →