Proverbs 25:23
The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
In Context
22For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will reward thee.
24It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
Cross References
Job 37:22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.
Psalms 101:5I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
Romans 1:30Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, 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 →