Proverbs 25:23

Modern English Version

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish. I fear there are debates, envying, wrath, strife, backbiting, whispering, arrogance, and disorder.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil things, and disobedient toward parents,

Proverbs 26:20

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

Psalm 15:3

he who does not slander with the tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

Job 37:22

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

Psalm 101:5

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I destroy; whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, him will I not endure.

Psalm 35:16

with hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

Job 37:9

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