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Darby's French Translation
Proverbes 25:15
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Le capitaine est fléchi par la patience, et la langue douce brise les os.
Le prince est fléchi par la patience, et la langue douce brise les os.
Par la lenteur à la colère on fléchit un prince, Et une langue douce peut briser des os.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
long: Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 16:14, Genesis 32:4-21, 1 Samuel 25:14, 1 Samuel 25:24-44, Ecclesiastes 10:4
the bone: Rather, "a bone;" that is, soft and conciliating language will often accomplish the most difficult things.
Reciprocal: Judges 8:3 - Then Judges 14:9 - General 1 Samuel 1:15 - my Lord Job 41:3 - General Proverbs 15:18 - he Proverbs 31:26 - in her
Gill's Notes on the Bible
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded,.... To come into measures, and do that which his council and ministry advise him to, and to which he may seem at first very averse; but by a mild and gentle representation of things, by an humble submission of them to him, and by frequent remonstrances and patient waiting, his mind is softened, bent, and inclined to take their advice, and pursue the measures suggested to him; which, had they been pressed with heat, haughtiness, and haste, would have been rejected;
and a soft tongue breaketh the bone; or "hardness", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; soft words, or words delivered in soft language, remove hardness and roughness from the minds of men; and work upon, influence, and bend men, whose wills are obstinate and stubborn, and make them pliable and tractable: so David, with a soft tongue, wrought upon Saul, his enemy; and Abigail, by her soft language, turned the mind of David, who was bent upon the destruction of Nabal,
1 Samuel 24:16; see Proverbs 15:1. Jarchi interprets this soft tongue of prayer and supplication, by which severe things against sinners are removed from them; and so he understands the former clause of the forbearance of God, which gives encouragement to sinners, to persuade him in their favour by repentance and prayer; see Matthew 18:26.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A soft tongue - Winning and gentle speech does what it seems at first least capable of doing; it overcomes obstacles which are as bones that the strongest jaws would fail to crush.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 25:15. A soft tongue breaketh the bone. — This is similar to another proverb on the same subject: "A soft answer turneth away wrath." An angry word does nothing but mischief.
