OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 28

Proverbs 30:28

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You can catch a lizard with your hands,

yet it is in kings’ palaces.

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Proverbs 30:25–31

25

The ants are not a strong people,

yet they provide their food in the summer.

26

The hyraxes are but a feeble folk,

yet make they their houses in the rocks.

27

The locusts have no king,

yet they advance in ranks.

28
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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:

30

The lion, which is mightiest among animals,

and doesn’t turn away for any;

31

the greyhound;

the male goat;

and the king against whom there is no rising up.

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