Proverbs 25:15
By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
In Context
14Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Cross References
Judges 14:9And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate, but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
1 Samuel 25:24And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity, and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 16:32He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:15
14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. He may be said to boast of a false gift, 1. Who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, which he never gave, makes a noise of his great accomplishments and his good services, but it is all false; he is not what he pretends to be. Or, 2. Who promises what he will give and what he will do, but performs nothing, who raises people's expectations of the mighty things he will do for his country, for his friends, what… Read the whole commentary →