Proverbs 30:28
Lizards/Geckos are very small and you can hold them in your hand, but they are cleverly able to get inside kings’ palaces.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In Context
27Locusts do not have a king, but they march like the soldiers in an army.
29There are four animals that strut around and look very impressive while they walk [DOU]:
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29‘From all the animals that walk on the ground, these are the ones that ◄defile you/cause you to become unacceptable to me► if you touch them: Moles, rats, any kind of lizard,
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 →