The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
The north wind bringeth forth rain; So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue--indignant faces.
The north wind bringeth forth rain, and the angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
"The north wind drives away rain," etc. If you listen with a cheerful face to a slanderer, you give him fuel for slandering; but if you listen with a gloomy face, as a certain man said, he will learn not willingly to say what he …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735patristic
The north wind driveth away rain,.... So the geographer (w) says, the swift north wind drives away the moist clouds; which usually come from the opposite quarter, the south.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The marginal reading is far more accurate and gives a better sense. The northwest wind in Palestine commonly brings rain, and this was probably in the thought of the writer.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
The verses this one reaches12
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
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The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 15:3who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
leads to
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of…
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
Through
Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
leads to
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Through
Proverbs 26:20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
leads to
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
