THEOSISProverbs 25:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.
ר֣וּחַ צָ֭פוֹן תְּח֣וֹלֵֽל גָּ֑שֶׁם וּפָנִ֥ים נִ֝זְעָמִ֗ים לְשׁ֣וֹן סָֽתֶר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Cor 12:20For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.
- Job 37:22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.
- Rom 1:30Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- Prov 26:20When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
- Ps 15 (14):3
- Ps 101 (100):5