Proverbs 30:28
thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
Darby Translation
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 have a stately step, and four are comely in going:
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the 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 →