Proverbs 25:23

WEB

²³The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

KJV

²³The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

BSB

²³As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

FBV

²³In the same way that the north wind brings rain, slandering people makes them angry.

Extra References

Romans 1:30

³⁰backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Proverbs 26:20

²⁰For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Job 37:22

²²Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

²⁰For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

Psalms 15:3

³he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 101:5

⁵I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.