The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty.
Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.
He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults: