Proverbs 30:28

American Standard Version

The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings’ palaces.

Read all of Proverbs 30Open in the Sinai app

Proverbs 30:28 in other translations

You can catch a lizard with your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Proverbs 30:28 · World English Bible

Proverbs 30:28 in context

  1. 26The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
  2. 27The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;
  3. 28The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings’ palaces.
  4. 29There are three things which are stately in their march, Yea, four which are stately in going:
  5. 30The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turneth not away for any;