Proverbs 25:15

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

In being at length to anger, a ruler is persuaded; and a soft tongue shatters the bone.

Cross References

Job 41:3

Will he multiply supplications to you; or will he speak soft words to you?

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns back wrath, but a word of pain causes anger to go up.

Proverbs 16:14

A king’s fury is as messengers of death, but a wise man will cover it.

Proverbs 16:32

One long to anger is better than the mighty one, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for a mind of health quiets great sins.

Judges 14:9

And he took it out on his hands, and went on, eating and walking. And he went to his father and to his mother, and gave some to them. And they ate, but he did not tell them that he took the honey out of the body of the lion.

1 Samuel 25:14

And one young man of the youths reported to Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David has sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our lord, and he screamed at them.