Ecclesiasticus 40:21
“The pipe and the psalterie make sweet melodie: but a pleasant tongue is aboue them both.”
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Ecclesiasticus 40:21 Context
19Children and the building of a citie continue a mans name: but a blamelesse wife is counted aboue them both. 20Wine & musicke reioyce the heart: but the loue of wisedome is aboue them both. 21The pipe and the psalterie make sweet melodie: but a pleasant tongue is aboue them both. 22Thine eye desireth fauour and beautie: but more then both, corne while it is greene. 23A friend and companion neuer meet amisse: but aboue both is a wife with her husband.
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The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody: but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
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