KJV King James Version
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 30:28
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
WEB World English Bible
You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
ASV American Standard Version
The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings’ palaces.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
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.
29 There be three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.
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