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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
שממית בידים תתפש והיא בהיכלי מלך
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
SHmmyt bydym ttpSH vhyA bhykly mlk

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
stilio manibus nititur et moratur in aedibus regis

King James Variants
American King James Version   
The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
The spider takes hold with its hands, and is in kings' palaces.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Authorized (King James) Version   
the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
New King James Version   
The spider skillfully grasps with its hands, And it is in kings’ palaces.
21st Century King James Version   
the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings palaces.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And the lizard that clings with its hands and dwells in Kings' houses.
Darby Bible Translation   
thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
The lizard taketh hold with her hands, yet is she in kings' palaces,
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
God's Word   
A lizard you can hold in your hands, yet it can even be found in royal palaces.
Holman Christian Standard 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.
NET Bible   
a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.
New American Standard Bible   
The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings' palaces.
New International Version   
a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.
New Living Translation   
Lizards--they are easy to catch, but they are found even in kings' palaces.
Webster's Bible Translation   
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces.
The World English Bible   
You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Lizards are easy to catch with your hand, but you will see them in kings' palaces.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.
New Life Version   
You can take the lizard in your hands, but it is found in kings’ houses.
The Voice Bible   
While a lizard is easy enough to catch in your hand, it is shrewd enough to enter the palaces of kings.
Living Bible   
There are four things that are small but unusually wise: Ants: they aren’t strong, but store up food for the winter. Cliff badgers: delicate little animals who protect themselves by living among the rocks. The locusts: though they have no leader, they stay together in swarms. The lizards: they are easy to catch and kill, yet are found even in king’s palaces!
New Catholic Bible   
the lizards, a species you can catch in your hands, yet they are found in the palaces of kings.
Legacy Standard Bible   
The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings’ palaces.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
the spider takes hold with her hands and is in kings’ palaces.
Christian Standard Bible   
a lizard can be caught in your hands, yet it lives in kings’ palaces.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
The lizard you can seize with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
New Century Version   
Lizards can be caught in the hand, but they are found even in kings’ palaces.
The Message   
There are four small creatures, wisest of the wise they are— ants—frail as they are, get plenty of food in for the winter; marmots—vulnerable as they are, manage to arrange for rock-solid homes; locusts—leaderless insects, yet they strip the field like an army regiment; lizards—easy enough to catch, but they sneak past vigilant palace guards.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Lizards can be caught in your hands, but they live in kings’ palaces.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
Good News Translation®   
Lizards: you can hold one in your hand, but you can find them in palaces.
Wycliffe Bible   
a lizard, enforceth with hands, and dwelleth in the houses of kings. (and a lizard, that endeavoureth with his hands, and liveth in palaces.)
Contemporary English Version   
lizards, which can be caught in your hand, but sneak into palaces.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
Common English Bible © 2011   
You can catch lizards in your hand, but they are in kings’ palaces.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
You may grasp the lizard with your hands, Yet it is in kings’ palaces.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Lizards—you can catch them with your hands, yet they find their way into kings’ palaces.
New American Standard Bible   
The lizard you may grasp with the hands, Yet it is in kings’ palaces.
The Expanded Bible   
Lizards can be caught in the hand, but they are found even in kings’ palaces.
Tree of Life Version   
a lizard you can catch with the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
Revised Standard Version   
the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
New International Reader's Version   
And the fourth are lizards, which your hand can catch. But you will find them in kings’ palaces.
BRG Bible   
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Complete Jewish Bible   
and the spiders, which you can catch in your hand, yet they are in the king’s palace.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
The lizard can be held in the hands, yet is in heikhelot (palaces) of a melech.
Names of God Bible   
A lizard you can hold in your hands, yet it can even be found in royal palaces.
Modern English Version   
the spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Easy-to-Read Version   
lizards are small enough to catch with your hands, but you can find them living in kings’ palaces.
International Children’s Bible   
And lizards can be caught in the hand. But they are found even in kings’ palaces.
Lexham English Bible   
a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings.
New International Version - UK   
a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.