Proverbs 25:15 - English Standard Version 2016 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. 更多版本King 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. |
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.