Proverbs 25:23
A north wind brings forth rain, || And a secret tongue—indignant faces.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
In Context
22For you are putting coals on his head, || And YHWH gives repayment to you.
24Better to sit on a corner of a roof, || Than [with] a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
Cross References
Job 37:22It comes from the golden north, || Fearful splendor [is] beside God.
Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, || Him I cut off, || The high of eyes and proud of heart, || Him I do not endure.
Romans 1:30evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, 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 →