the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Proverbs 25:15
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When one is slow to anger, a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft tongue breaks the bone.
By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded, And a soft tongue breaks the bone.
With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.
In being slow to anger, a ruler is persuaded; and a soft tongue shatters the bone.
With patience, you can make anyone change their thinking, even a ruler. Gentle speech is very powerful.
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
By long forbearing is a Prince perswaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
With pacience maye a prynce be pacified, & wt a soft tonge maye rigorousnes be broke.
Patient persistence pierces through indifference; gentle speech breaks down rigid defenses.
By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded, And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance].
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaks the bone.
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Patience and gentle talk can convince a ruler and overcome any problem.
With patience a ruler may be won over, and a gentle tongue can break bones.
A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.
By long forbearing, a ruler is persuaded; and a soft tongue breaks the bones.
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can break bones.
When one is slow to anger, a ruler may be won over. A gentle tongue will break a bone.
The horse-leech had three dearly-beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough.
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break bones.
By long patience, is a judge persuaded, and, a soft tongue, breaketh the bone.
By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
Through patience a ruler may be persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks bone.
With patience you can convince a ruler, and a gentle word can get through to the hard-headed.
Patient persuasion can break down the strongest resistance and can even convince rulers.
A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
A prince schal be maad soft bi pacience; and a soft tunge schal breke hardnesse.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
long: Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 16:14, Genesis 32:4-21, 1 Samuel 25:14, 1 Samuel 25:24-44, Ecclesiastes 10:4
the bone: Rather, "a bone;" that is, soft and conciliating language will often accomplish the most difficult things.
Reciprocal: Judges 8:3 - Then Judges 14:9 - General 1 Samuel 1:15 - my Lord Job 41:3 - General Proverbs 15:18 - he Proverbs 31:26 - in her
Cross-References
They attacked the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded,.... To come into measures, and do that which his council and ministry advise him to, and to which he may seem at first very averse; but by a mild and gentle representation of things, by an humble submission of them to him, and by frequent remonstrances and patient waiting, his mind is softened, bent, and inclined to take their advice, and pursue the measures suggested to him; which, had they been pressed with heat, haughtiness, and haste, would have been rejected;
and a soft tongue breaketh the bone; or "hardness", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; soft words, or words delivered in soft language, remove hardness and roughness from the minds of men; and work upon, influence, and bend men, whose wills are obstinate and stubborn, and make them pliable and tractable: so David, with a soft tongue, wrought upon Saul, his enemy; and Abigail, by her soft language, turned the mind of David, who was bent upon the destruction of Nabal,
1 Samuel 24:16; see Proverbs 15:1. Jarchi interprets this soft tongue of prayer and supplication, by which severe things against sinners are removed from them; and so he understands the former clause of the forbearance of God, which gives encouragement to sinners, to persuade him in their favour by repentance and prayer; see Matthew 18:26.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A soft tongue - Winning and gentle speech does what it seems at first least capable of doing; it overcomes obstacles which are as bones that the strongest jaws would fail to crush.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 25:15. A soft tongue breaketh the bone. — This is similar to another proverb on the same subject: "A soft answer turneth away wrath." An angry word does nothing but mischief.
