Proverbs 25:15
A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
In Context
14A man that boasteth of false liberalitie, is like cloudes and winde without raine.
16If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, and vomit it.
Cross References
Judges 14:9And he tooke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and to his mother, and gaue vnto them, and they did eate: but hee told not them, that he had taken the hony out of the body of the lyon.
1 Samuel 25:24And fel at his feete, and sayd, Oh, my lord, I haue committed the iniquitie, and I pray thee, let thine handmayde speake to thee, and heare thou the wordes of thine handmayde.
Proverbs 15:1A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.
Proverbs 16:32He that is slowe vnto anger, is better then the mightie man: and hee that ruleth his owne minde, is better then he that winneth 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 →