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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 6
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
- WEB
- Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends. A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies.
- DRC
- A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.
- LXXE
- Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Λάρυγξ γλυκὺς πληθυνεῖ φίλους αὐτοῦ, καὶ γλῶσσα εὔλαλος πληθυνεῖ εὐπροσήγορα.