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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
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Bone Break Breaketh Breaks Broken Forbearance Forbearing Gentle Judge Long-Suffering Moved Patience Persuaded Prince Protest Ruler Soft Time Tongue Undergoes Wrongs Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary Verse 15 Two things are here recommended to us, in dealing with others, as likely means to gain our point:-1. Patience, to bear a present heat without being put into a heat by it, and to wait for a fit opportunity to offer our reasons and to give persons time to consider them. By this means even a prince may be persuaded to do a thing which he seemed very averse to, much more a common person. That which is justice and reason now will be so another time, and therefore we need not urge them with violence now, but wait for a more convenient season. 2. Mildness, to speak without passion or provocation: A soft tongue breaks the bone; it mollifies the roughest spirits and overcomes those that are most morose, like lightning, which, they say, has sometimes broken the bone, and yet not pierced the flesh. Gideon with a soft tongue pacified the Ephraimites and Abigail turned away David's wrath. Hard words, we say, break no bones, and therefore we should bear them patiently; but, it seems, soft words do, and therefore we should, on all occasions, give them prudently. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Alphabetical: a and be bone break breaks By can forbearance gentle may patience persuaded ruler soft the Through tongue Bible Browser | 
