Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

With patience may a prince be pacified, and with a soft tongue may rigorousness be broken.

New American Standard Bible

By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

King James Version

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

Holman Bible

A ruler can be persuaded through patience,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

International Standard Version

Through patience a ruler may be persuaded; a gentle word can break a bone.

A Conservative Version

By long-suffering a ruler is 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.

Amplified


By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance].

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.

Darby Translation

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

Julia Smith Translation

In slowness to anger shall the prince be persuaded, and the soft tongue shall break the bones.

King James 2000

By long patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue breaks the bone.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{With patience} a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Modern King James verseion

In being slow to anger a ruler is won over, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

NET Bible

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone.

New Heart English Bible

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

The Emphasized Bible

By long patience, is a judge persuaded, and, a soft tongue, breaketh the bone.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By long
ארך 
'orek 
length, long, ever, as long as, high
Usage: 95

is a prince
קצין 
Qatsiyn 
Usage: 12

פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

and a soft
רך 
Rak 
Usage: 16

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

שׁבר 
Shabar 
Usage: 148

Context Readings

More Proverbs Of Solomon

14 Whoso maketh great boasts and giveth nothing, is like clouds and wind without rain. 15 With patience may a prince be pacified, and with a soft tongue may rigorousness be broken. 16 If thou findest honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be overfull, and parbreak it out again.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If a principal spirit be given thee to bear rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for so shall great wickedness be put down, as it were with a medicine.

Proverbs 16:14

The king's displeasure is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him.

Genesis 32:4-21

And he commanded them, saying, "See that ye speak after this manner to my LORD Esau, 'thy servant, Jacob, sayeth thus: I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time;

1 Samuel 25:14

But one of the lads told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "See, David sent messengers unto our master out of the wilderness to salute him, and he railed on them.

1 Samuel 25:24-44

and fell at his feet and said, "Let this unhappy deed be counted mine, my lord, and let thine handmaid speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

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