the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 30:28
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Lizards—they are easy to catch, but they are found even in kings' palaces.
The lizard, you can catch it with [your] hands, Yet is she in kings' palaces.
Lizards can be caught in the hand, but they are found even in kings' palaces.
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces.
You can catch a lizard with your hands, Yet she is in kings' palaces.
You may grasp the lizard with your hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
and dwellith in the housis of kingis.
The lizard taketh hold with her hands, yet is she in kings' palaces,
and the lizard can be caught in one's hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
lizards, which can be caught in your hand, but sneak into palaces.
The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings' palaces.
You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
and the spiders, which you can catch in your hand, yet they are in the king's palace.
thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
lizards are small enough to catch with your hands, but you can find them living in kings' palaces.
The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces.
You can take the lizard in your hands, but it is found in kings' houses.
the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.
The spider taketh holde with her handes, and is in Kings palaces.
The chameleon which takes hold with her hands, but is found in kings palaces.
Lizards: you can hold one in your hand, but you can find them in palaces.
The lizard, with hands, reneweth its hold, - yet, the same, is in the palaces of the king.
The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings’ houses.
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
The spyder laboureth with her handes, and is in kynges palaces.
In the places of ungodly men the righteous mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.
a lizard can be caught in your hands,yet it lives in kings’ palaces.
You can catch a lizard with your hands, Yet she is in kings' palaces.
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings.
the lizard you can take with the hands, yet it is in king's palaces.
A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.
The spyder laboureth wt hir hades, & yt in ye kynges palace.
The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.
The spider [fn] skillfully grasps with its hands,And it is in kings' palaces.
The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.
The lizard you may grasp with the hands,Yet it is in kings' palaces.
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
The spider taketh hold with her hands,.... On the thread she spins, or on the flies and bees she catches in her web. This is a small creature, yet very wise; what a curious thread does she spin! what a fine web does she weave! with what exactness and proportion is it framed! as if she understood the rules of mathematics and architecture;
and is in kings' palaces; as well as in the houses of poor people, and in temples also; we read y of one in the temple of Ceres, which drew its web over the face of the image: and though her webs are oftentimes destroyed, especially in kings' palaces; yet such is her constancy and assiduity, and her unwearied application to business, that, as fast as they are destroyed, she attempts to restore them. This creature is an emblem of diligence in things temporal and spiritual; which those that use in the former sense shall stand before kings, and not before mean men; and in the latter sense shall have the presence of the King of kings, and dwell in his palace here and hereafter: also of worldly minded men, who labour to be rich; spend their time, and take a great deal of pains for mere trifles; weave curious webs, and, after all, only catch flies; and those they cannot hold, uncertain riches, which make themselves wings and fly away. Likewise this creature may resemble hypocrites, whose hope and trust are as the spider's web, built upon their own righteousness, spun out of their own hearts; a fine, thin, slender thread, which cannot bear one stroke of the besom of divine justice; such as these are in the palaces of Christ the King, are in his churches, hypocrites in Zion; see Job 8:13. Aben Ezra interprets it of the ape: the same David de Pomis z observes, and Mr. Weemse a, who seems to incline to this sense; and this creature King Solomon, no doubt, had in his palace, since his navy brought many of these, every three years, from those parts to which it was sent,
1 Kings 10:22; and to these hands more properly belong than to spiders, and are taken into king's palaces for their pleasure and diversion; but to these there is one objection, that this creature is not a little one. Others understand it of the "lizard", that sort which is called "stellio"; but it is a question whether this is to be found in king's palaces. Bellonius b makes mention of a kind of lizard, which creeps into walls and catches flies, and is called by the Greeks "samiamiton", a name very near the Hebrew word here used: and Pliny c speaks of the "stellio", or lizard, as being in doors, windows, and chambers; and as a very fraudulent and deceitful creature to men, none more so; and also as poisonous, as this creature in the text by its name seems to be: and Austin d makes mention of the lizard as a domestic animal; which catches flies as the spider, with whom he joins it. The Targum, Jarchi, and Gersom, take it to be the spider, as we do; which may be thought most likely, since the creature here meant seems to have its name from the Arabic word "sam", which signifies poison e; though it is affirmed f the spider is not poisonous; as is well known by persons who have frequently swallowed them, without any more harm than happens to hens, robin red breasts, and other birds, who make them their daily food; and so men have been bit by them, without any ill consequence: wherefore it is still thought by some that the lizard is more probably meant; since some sorts of them are poisonous g, though not all, for some are eatable; 1 Kings 10:22- :.
y Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 12. c. 57. z Lexic. fol. 216. 1. a Exercitat. l. 1. exercitat. 4. p. 31. b Apud Dieteric. Antiqu. Biblio. p. 470. c Nat. Hist. l. 3o. c. 10. d Confess. l. 10. c. 35. e Golius, col. 1208. Hottinger. Smegin Oriental. l. 1. c. 7. p. 199. f Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 800. and vol. 5. part. 1. p. 24. g Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 22. c. 25. & l. 29. c. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Spider - Rather, the Gecko (or Stellio), a genus of the lizard tribe, many species of which haunt houses, make their way through crevices in the walls, and with feet that secrete a venomous exudation catch the spiders or the flies they find there.
