Proverbs 30:28
The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 go they 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 they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds,
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 →