Proverbs 25:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ The north wind driveth away rain: So doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ The north wind brings forth rain; so does a backbiting tongue bring forth an angry countenance.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ The north wind bringeth forth rain; So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

Common English Bible

²³ The north wind stirs up rain, and a person who plots quietly provokes angry faces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ The north wind brings forth the rain, and a sorrowful face brings forth a detracting tongue.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Proverbs 25:23 Cross References

Job 37:22

Out of the north cometh golden splendour: God hath upon him terrible majesty.

Job 37:9

Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm: And cold out of the north.

Psalm 101:5

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

Psalm 15:3

He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Psalm 35:16

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goeth out: And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

Romans 1:30

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;