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Pro 25:23 — The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
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north   Job 37:22
driveth, etc.   or, bringeth forth rain; so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. Monconys says, that when travelling on the second of January, 1648, from Tripoli in Syria, between Lebanon and the sea, it rained without ceasing, while the north wind blew directly in his face.
so   Pro 26:20; Psa 15:3; Psa 101:5; Rom 1:30; 2Cr 12:20
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north
Job 37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty.
so
Pro 26:20 Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Psa 15:3 [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psa 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
2Cr 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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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 25:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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