Proverbs 25:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 25:23 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Job 37:22
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Psalms 15:3
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Romans 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, 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 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:

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Backbiting Gossip Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena Railing Slander Speaking Talebearer Tongue

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23)

Here see, 1. How we must discourage sin and witness against it, and particularly the sin of slandering and backbiting; we must frown upon it, and, by giving it an angry countenance, endeavour to put it out of countenance. Slanders would not be so readily spoken as they are if they were not readily heard; but good manners would silence the slanderer if he saw that his tales displeased the company.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Better, “As the north wind bringeth forth (Psa 90:2) or produces rain, so does a concealed or slandering tongue produce anger.”