Verses with the word tale in the Apocrypha (4 verses):
Sirach 19:15
Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.
Sirach 20:19
An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the unwise.
Sirach 22:6
A tale out of season [is as] musick in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisdom are never out of time.
Sirach 22:8
He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?
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