Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Les paroles agréables sont un rayon de miel, Douces pour l'âme et salutaires pour le corps.
KJV
Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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us (Chabot); ad p. 100, 1. 2, procul dubio refert. Àp. MAL. nihil tale stat. — * SiR., XXVII, 1. —? Prov., xvi, 24, — !? HAB., n, 12. — !! Mica. ‘trahuntur’. Ct 0 5 25 30 10 20 30 — 105 — servus autem tuus ipsius gaudebit »'. Ei enim etiam qui fide…
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