Proverbs 30:28
A spider with two hands takes hold, || And is in the palaces of a king.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In Context
27There is no king to the locust, || And it goes out—each one shouting,
29There are three going well, || Indeed, four are good in going:
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29And this [is] the unclean to you among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the muroid, and the tortoise [[ or large 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 →