Proverbs 25:15

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…

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.

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…

We have an illustration of this proverb in the effect of the "long forbearing" of David during his persecution by Saul, and of his "soft tongue" at Engedi (1Samuel 24), and in the wilderness of Ziph…