Proverbs 25:15
A ruler is persuaded by long-suffering, || And a soft tongue breaks a bone.
Literal Standard 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] a man boasting himself in a false gift.
16You have found honey—eat your sufficiency, || Lest you are satiated [with] it, and have vomited it.
Cross References
Judges 14:9And he takes it down on to his hands, and goes on, going and eating; and he goes to his father, and to his mother, and gives to them, and they eat, and he has not declared to them that he took down the honey from the body of the lion.
1 Samuel 25:24and falls at his feet and says, “On me, my lord, the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ear, and hear the words of your handmaid.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turns back fury, || And a grievous word raises up anger.
Proverbs 16:32Better [is] the [one] slow to anger than the mighty, || And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking 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 →