Proverbs 30:28
a lizard, enforceth with hands, and dwelleth in the houses of kings. (and a lizard, that endeavoureth with his hands, and liveth in palaces.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In Context
27a locust, (that) hath no king, and (yet) all goeth out by companies;
Cross References
Leviticus 11:29Also these things shall be areckoned among defouled things, of these things that be moved on earth (or of these things that move upon the ground); a weasel, and a mouse, and a crocodile, each after his 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 →