Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?
Proverbs 25:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break bones. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition By long forbearance and calmness of spirit a judge or ruler is persuaded, and soft speech breaks down the most bonelike resistance. [Gen. 32:4; I Sam. 25:24; Prov. 15:1; 16:14.] American Standard Version (1901) By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Common English Bible A commander can be persuaded with patience, and a tender tongue can break a bone. Catholic Public Domain Version By patience, a leader shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness. |
Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?
A king’s wrath is a messenger of death, and whoever is wise will appease it.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness will undo great offenses.
He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, and he shouted insults at them.