Proverbs 25:23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Cross References

Job 37:22

Out of the north comes golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

Job 37:9

From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

Psalm 101:5

One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

Psalm 15:3

who do not slander with their tongue, and do no evil to their friends, nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;

Psalm 35:16

they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.