By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
By long forbearing is a prince (whose anger is more violent and despotic) persuaded - much more is a private individual.
A soft tongue breaketh the bone - breaketh a heart hard as bone, (Proverbs 15:1; Genesis 32:4 etc.; Judges 8:2-3; 1 Samuel 25:24, etc.) So Issachar "crouching down instead of kicking against the "two burdens" (Genesis 49:14). 'It is a common error that the shortest road to peace is to howl with wolves, and give back curse for curse' (Cartwright).