Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
New Living Translation (©2007)
Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can break bones.
English Standard Version (©2001)
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded, And a soft tongue breaks the bone.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
With patience you can persuade a ruler, and a soft tongue can break bones.
King James Bible
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
American King James Version
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
American Standard Version
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Bible in Basic English
A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
Darby Bible Translation
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
English Revised Version
By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Webster's Bible Translation
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
World English Bible
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
Young's Literal Translation
By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.
Geneva Study Bible
By long {l} forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the {m} bone.
(l) By not creating opportunity to provoke him further.
(m) That is, the heart that is bent to anger, as in Pr 15:1.
Wesley's Notes
25:15 Forbearing - By patient submission and expectation. Breaketh - Softens the hardest heart.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
15. Gentleness and kindness overcome the most powerful and obstinate.
long forbearing-or, "slowness to anger" (Pr 14:29; 15:18).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
25:1-3 God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honour of rulers to search out matters, to bring to light hidden works of darkness. 4,5. For a prince to suppress vice, and reform his people, is the best way to support his government. 6,7. Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. He who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus, will feel his own unworthiness. 8-10. To be hasty in beginning strife, will bring into difficulties. War must at length end, and might better be prevented. It is so in private quarrels; do all thou canst to settle the matter. 11,12. A word of counsel, or reproof, rightly spoken, is especially beautiful, as fine fruit becomes still more beautiful in silver baskets. 13. See what ought to be the aim of him that is trusted with any business; to be faithful. A faithful minister, Christ's messenger, should be thus acceptable to us. 14. He who pretends to have received or given that which he never had, is like the morning cloud, that disappoints those who look for rain. 15. Be patient to bear a present hurt. Be mild to speak without passion; for persuasive language is the most effectual to prevail over the hardened mind. 16. God has given us leave to use grateful things, but we are cautioned against excess
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