Pro 25:23
The north wind driveth away rain: so {doth} an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. {driveth...: or, bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance}
King James Version
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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Where no wood is, {there} the fire goeth out: so where {there is} no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. {Where no...: Heb. Without wood} {talebearer: or, whisperer} {ceaseth: Heb. is silent}
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God {is} terrible majesty. {Fair...: Heb. Gold}
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
{He that} backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. {taketh...: or, receiveth, or, endureth}
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that {was} with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God {is} terrible majesty. {Fair...: Heb. Gold}
And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador {is} health. {a faithful...: Heb. an ambassador of faithfulness}
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receive}
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants {are} wicked.