Proverbs 25:23
The north wind brings forth the rain, and a sorrowful face brings forth a detracting tongue.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
In Context
22For you will gather hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will repay you.
Cross References
Job 37:22Riches arrive from the north, and fearful praise reaches out to God.
Psalms 101:5I have been cut down like hay, and my heart has withered, for I had forgotten to eat my bread.
Romans 1:30slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:22-23
Forgiveness of Enemies. 21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee. By this it appears that, however the scribes and Pharisees had corrupted the law, not only the commandment of loving our brethren, but even that of loving our enemies, was not only a new, but also an old commandment, an Old-Testament commandment, though our Saviour has given it to us with the new enforcement of… Read the whole commentary →