Proverbs 30:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

Proverbs 30:28 —

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Animals Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Diligence Economics Frugality

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-28)

I. Agur, having specified four things that seem great and yet are really contemptible, here specifies four things that are little and yet are very admirable, great in miniature, in which, as bishop Patrick observes, he teaches us several good lessons; as, 1. Not to admire bodily bulk, or beauty, or strength, nor to value persons or think the better of them for such advantages, but to judge of men…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

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 co…