Proverbs 30:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

You can catch a lizard with your hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.

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    24"There are four things which are little on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:

    25The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

    26The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

    27The locusts have no king, Yet they advance in ranks;

  • Prov 31:19-20
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    19She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.

    20She opens her arms to the poor; Yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

  • Prov 30:29-31
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    29"There are three things which are stately in their march, Four which are stately in going:

    30The lion, which is mightiest among animals, And doesn't turn away for any;

    31The greyhound, The male goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Isa 59:5-6
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    5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

  • Job 8:14-15
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    14Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

    15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

  • Job 39:27-30
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    27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?

    28On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

    29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

    30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Isa 34:13
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    13Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, Where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, When there is nothing to catch?

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    18He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

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    14and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

    9A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

    10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

  • Nah 3:15-17
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    15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

    16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

    17Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Job 28:7-8
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    7That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

    8The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

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    22She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

  • Jer 5:27
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    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.

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    19As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

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    17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

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    14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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    4Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.

  • Prov 6:5-8
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    5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, Like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

    7Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

    8Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.

  • Ps 148:10
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    10Wild animals and all cattle; Small creatures and flying birds;

  • Job 37:8
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    8Then the animals take cover, And remain in their dens.

  • Ps 84:3
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    3Yes, the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, Near your altars, Yahweh of Hosts, my King, and my God.

  • Job 39:14
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    14For she leaves her eggs on the earth, Warms them in the dust,

  • Prov 31:31
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    31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • Isa 34:15
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    15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.

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    28He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

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    46He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.