Proverbs 25:15
With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
In Context
14Whoso maketh great boastes and geueth nothing, is lyke cloudes and winde without rayne.
Cross References
Judges 14:9And he toke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and mother, and gaue them also, and they did eate: But he tolde not them that he had taken the hony out of the carkasse of the Lion.
Proverbs 15:1A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.
Proverbs 16:32A patient man is better the one strong: and he that can rule hym selfe, is more worth then he that wynneth a citie.
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 →