The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.
Golden splendor comes out of the north; God is awesome in His majesty.
Out of the storeroom comes the tempest; and cold from scattering winds.
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.
he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.
backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;