Proverbs 25:23

American King James Version (1999)

The north wind drives away rain: so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Cross References

Job 37:22

Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Job 37:9

Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

Psalm 101:5

Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Psalm 15:3

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

Psalm 35:16

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

Proverbs 26:20

Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

Romans 1:30

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

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults: