Proverbs 30:28

As for the lizard, you can hold it in your two hands, 1 yet they are found in kings' palaces. 1

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The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

In Context

27Locusts have no king, 1 but all of them march in rank. 1

29There are three things that are stately in their stride 1 and four that are stately in how they walk: 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:29Of the animals that creep on the ground, these are the animals that will be unclean to you: the weasel, the rat, every kind of large 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 →

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