Proverbs 25:23

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Job 37:22

He comes from the north as golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.

Job 37:9

From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scattering winds of the north.

Psalm 101:5

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.

Psalm 15:3

He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;

Psalm 35:16

With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.

Proverbs 26:20

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

Romans 1:30

backbiters, haters of God, violent, 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 wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;