By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.

恒常忍耐可以劝动君王；柔和的舌头能折断骨头。

恒常的忍耐可以劝服君王，柔和的舌头能折断骨头。

恒常的忍耐可以劝服君王，柔和的舌头能折断骨头。

坚忍说服君王，柔舌折断骨头。

恒久忍耐可以劝服掌权的人，柔和的舌头，可以折断骨头。

藉着恒久忍耐，能说服统领；温和的舌头，能折断骨头。

恆常忍耐可以勸動君王；柔和的舌頭能折斷骨頭。

恆常的忍耐可以勸服君王，柔和的舌頭能折斷骨頭。

恆常的忍耐可以勸服君王，柔和的舌頭能折斷骨頭。

堅忍說服君王，柔舌折斷骨頭。

恆久忍耐可以勸服掌權的人，柔和的舌頭，可以折斷骨頭。

持久忍氣能使掌權者受勸動；柔和的舌頭能折斷人的骨幹。

藉著恆久忍耐，能說服統領；溫和的舌頭，能折斷骨頭。

恆忍可以勸君、柔舌能以折骨、

恆忍可以悅君、柔詞可以折骨。

恆忍可以使君納諫、柔言可以挽回固執、柔言可以挽回固執原文作柔舌可以折骨

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

If you are patient, you can win an official over to your side. And gentle words can break a bone.

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

Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can break bones.

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

Through patience a ruler may be persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks bone.

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

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

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

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

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

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, Do not leave your post; For conciliation pacifies great offenses.

As messengers of death is the king’s wrath, But a wise man will appease it.

So she fell at his feet and said:“ On me, my Lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.Please, let not my Lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my Lord whom you sent.Now therefore, my Lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek harm for my Lord be as Nabal.And now this present which your maidservant has brought to my Lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my Lord.Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For the Lord will certainly make for my Lord an enduring house, because my Lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil is not found in you throughout your days.Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my Lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my Lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel,that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my Lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my Lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my Lord, then remember your maidservant.”Then David said to Abigail:“ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!”So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her,“ Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and respected your person.”Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.Then it happened, after about ten days, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,“ Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil! For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.” And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take her as his wife.When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying,“ David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.”Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said,“ Here is your maidservant, a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord.”So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens; and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and so both of them were his wives.But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying,“ Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he reviled them.

And he commanded them, saying,“ Speak thus to my Lord Esau,‘ Thus your servant Jacob says:“ I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my Lord, that I may find favor in your sight.”’”Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying,“ We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.And he said,“ If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”Then Jacob said,“ O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me,‘ return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’:I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.For You said,‘ I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”So he lodged there that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.Then he delivered them to the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants,“ Pass over before me, and put some distance between successive droves.”And he commanded the first one, saying,“ When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying,‘ To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these in front of you?’then you shall say,‘ They are your servant Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my Lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.’”So he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying,“ In this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;and also say,‘ Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he said,“ I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.