The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
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.
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor heap shame upon their neighbors;
Out of the north comes golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.
One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.
they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.
From its chamber comes the whirlwind and cold from the scattering winds.