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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can break bones. Do you like honey? Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick!

A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.  If you find honey,  eat only what you need; otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh the bone. Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks a bone. Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be filled with it and vomit.

Patient persistence pierces through indifference; gentle speech breaks down rigid defenses. When you’re given a box of candy, don’t gulp it all down; eat too much chocolate and you’ll make yourself sick; And when you find a friend, don’t outwear your welcome; show up at all hours and he’ll soon get fed up.

Through patience a ruler may be persuaded, And a gentle tongue breaks bone. Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, So that you do not have it in excess and vomit it.

By patience and a calm spirit a ruler may be persuaded, And a soft and gentle tongue breaks the bone [of resistance]. [Gen 32:4; 1 Sam 25:24; Prov 15:1; 16:14] Have you found [pleasure sweet like] honey? Eat only as much as you need, Otherwise, being filled excessively, you vomit it.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone. When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.