Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

The lizard you may grasp with the hands,
Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

a lizard can be caught in your hands,
yet it lives in kings’ palaces.

International Standard Version

Spiders can be caught by the hand, yet they're found in kings' palaces.

A Conservative Version

the lizard takes hold with her hands, yet she is in kings' palaces.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


You may grasp the lizard with your hands,
Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Bible in Basic English

You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

Darby Translation

thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

Julia Smith Translation

The lizard will take hold with their hands, and it is in the temples of the king.

King James 2000

The spider takes hold with its hands, and is in kings' palaces.

Lexham Expanded Bible

a lizard you [can] seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings.

Modern King James verseion

you can take the lizard with the hands, yet it is in king's palaces.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The spider laboureth with her hands, and that in the kings' palace.

NET Bible

a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

The lizard, with hands, reneweth its hold, - yet, the same, is in the palaces of the king.

Webster

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces.

Youngs Literal Translation

A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂממית 
S@mamiyth 
Usage: 1

תּפשׂ 
Taphas 
Usage: 65

with her hands
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

and is in kings'
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

References

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Easton

Fausets

Verse Info

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Small - Yet Smart And Strong

27 The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. 28 You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces. 29 "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:

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