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Proverbs 25:23

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¶ The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

The north {H6828} wind {H7307} driveth away {H2342} rain {H1653}: so doth an angry {H2194} countenance {H6440} a backbiting {H5643} tongue {H3956}.

The north wind brings rain and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

The north wind bringeth forth rain; So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Corinthians 12:20 (3 votes)

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  • Job 37:22 (3 votes)

    Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty.

  • Romans 1:30 (3 votes)

    Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

  • Proverbs 26:20 (3 votes)

    ¶ Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

  • Psalms 15:3 (3 votes)

    [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

  • Psalms 101:5 (2 votes)

    Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.