Proverbs 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Proverbs 30:28 in other translations
| BSB | and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings. |
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| WEB | You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces. |
| ASV | The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings’ palaces. |
| YLT | A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king. |
| DARBY | thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces. |
| BBE | You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses. |
| Webster | The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces. |
What does Proverbs 30:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 30:24-31
24-31. These verses provide two classes of apt illustrations of various aspects of the moral world, which the reader is left to apply. By the first (Pr 30:25-28), diligence and providence are commended; the success of these insignificant animals being due to their instinctive sagacity and activity, rather than strength. The other class (Pr 30:30, 31) provides similes for whatever is majestic or comely, uniting…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 30:24-28
Four things that are little, are yet to be admired. There are those who are poor in the world, and of small account, yet wise for their souls and another world.
Proverbs 30:28 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
- Proverbs 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
- Proverbs 30:29
There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Proverbs 30:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | La araña, ase con las manos, y está en palacios de rey. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | tu saisis le lézard avec les mains, et il est dans les palais des rois. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | die Eidechse kannst du mit Händen fangen, und doch ist sie in den Palästen der Könige. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | stellio manibus nititur, et moratur in ædibus regis. |