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Proverbs 25:23

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

KJV

Ventus aquilo dissipat pluvias, et facies tristis linguam detrahentem.

Vulgate

ἄνεμος βορέας ἐξεγείρει νέφη, πρόσωπον δὲ ἀναιδὲς γλῶσσαν ἐρεθίζει.

LXX

The north wind bringeth forth rain; So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

ASV

ר֣וּחַ צָ֭פוֹן תְּח֣וֹלֵֽל גָּ֑שֶׁם וּ/פָנִ֥ים נִ֝זְעָמִ֗ים לְשׁ֣וֹן סָֽתֶר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גָּֽשֶׁם
gshm
noun · 35×
ה
h
noun · 153×
זָעַ֥ם
z'm
verb · 12×
ם
m
noun · 116×
ן
n
verb · 61×
סֵ֣תֶר
str
noun · 36×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 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
  • Eph 4:26 — Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
  • Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Gen 8:1 — 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;
  • Job 37:22 — Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
  • Job 37:22 — Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
  • Prov 26:20 — Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
  • Ps 15:3 — He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
  • Rom 1:30 — Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,