Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look. New Living Translation As surely as a north wind brings rain, so a gossiping tongue causes anger! English Standard Version The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. Berean Standard Bible As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks. King James Bible The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. New King James Version The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. New American Standard Bible The north wind brings rain, And a gossiping tongue brings an angry face. NASB 1995 The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance. NASB 1977 The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance. Legacy Standard Bible The north wind brings forth rain, And a tongue of secrets, an indignant face. Amplified Bible The north wind brings forth rain; And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance. Christian Standard Bible The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. Holman Christian Standard Bible The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. American Standard Version The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. Aramaic Bible in Plain English As the North wind gives birth to rain, so also is an evil face to a lurking tongue. Brenton Septuagint Translation The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue. Contemporary English Version As surely as rain blows in from the north, anger is caused by cruel words. Douay-Rheims Bible The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue. English Revised Version The north wind bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. GOD'S WORD® Translation [As] the north wind brings rain, so a whispering tongue brings angry looks. Good News Translation Gossip brings anger just as surely as the north wind brings rain. International Standard Version The north wind brings rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry look. JPS Tanakh 1917 The north wind bringeth forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. Literal Standard Version A north wind brings forth rain, | And a secret tongue—indignant faces. Majority Standard Bible As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks. New American Bible The north wind brings rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. NET Bible The north wind brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue brings forth an angry look. New Revised Standard Version The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. New Heart English Bible The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. Webster's Bible Translation The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. World English Bible The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. Young's Literal Translation A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue -- indignant faces. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context More Proverbs of Solomon…22For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. 23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks. 24Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.… Cross References Psalm 35:16 Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me. Psalm 101:5 Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure. Treasury of Scripture The north wind drives away rain: so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. north Job 37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty. Psalm 15:3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. Psalm 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. Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Jump to Previous Angry Backbiting Birth Caused Countenance Driveth Evil Face Faces Forth Gives Indignant Looks North Rain Secret Secretly Sly Tongue WindJump to Next Angry Backbiting Birth Caused Countenance Driveth Evil Face Faces Forth Gives Indignant Looks North Rain Secret Secretly Sly Tongue WindProverbs 25 1. observations about kings8. and about avoiding causes of quarrels (23) The north wind driveth away rain.--The marginal rendering is probably more correct: "The north wind bringeth forth rain;" but as this seems to be opposed to Job 37:22, it has been thought that the north-west, which is a rainy wind, must be intended here. So doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.--Rather, So doth a backbiting tongue (bring forth, or cause) troubled faces. Verse 23. - The north wind driveth away rain. So St. Jerome (Ventus Aquilo dissipat pluvias), Symmachus, Aben Ezra, and others. The north wind is called by the natives of Palestine "the heavenly," from the bright effect which it produces in the sky. "By means of the north wind cometh he (the sun) forth as gold" (Job 37:22). But the verb here used (חול) means "to bring forth, produce" (Psalm 90:2); hence the Revised Version rightly renders, "The north wind bringeth forth rain." This is quite true if "north wind" be taken as equivalent to "wind from the dark quarter" (Umbreit), like ζόφος in Greek; and, in fact, the northwest wind in Palestine does bring rain. Septuagint, "The north wind arouseth (ἐξεγείρει) clouds." So doth an angry countenance a backbiting, tongue. Carrying on the interpretation intended by the Authorized Version, this clause means that an angry leer will check a slanderer and incline him to hold his peace from prudential motives. But with the rendering given above, "bringeth forth," another explanation is involved, viz. "So does a secret, slandering tongue cause a troubled countenance." When a man discovers that a secret slanderer is working against him, he shows it by his gloomy and angry look, as the sky is dark with clouds when a storm is threatened. "Countenance" is plural in the Hebrew, denoting, as Hitzig points out, that the calumniator does not affect one person only, but occasions trouble far and wide, destroys friendly relations between many, excites suspicion and enmity in various quarters Septuagint, "An impudent countenance provokes the tongue."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew As the northצָ֭פוֹן (ṣā·p̄ō·wn) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6828: Hidden, dark, the north as a, quarter wind ר֣וּחַ (rū·aḥ) Noun - common singular construct Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit brings forth תְּח֣וֹלֵֽל (tə·ḥō·w·lêl) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert rain, גָּ֑שֶׁם (gā·šem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1653: Rain, shower so a backbiting סָֽתֶר׃ (sā·ṯer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5643: A covering, hiding place, secrecy tongue לְשׁ֣וֹן (lə·šō·wn) Noun - common singular construct Strong's 3956: The tongue [brings] angry נִ֝זְעָמִ֗ים (niz·‘ā·mîm) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 2194: To foam at the mouth, to be enraged looks. וּפָנִ֥ים (ū·p̄ā·nîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face Links Proverbs 25:23 NIVProverbs 25:23 NLT Proverbs 25:23 ESV Proverbs 25:23 NASB Proverbs 25:23 KJV Proverbs 25:23 BibleApps.com Proverbs 25:23 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 25:23 Chinese Bible Proverbs 25:23 French Bible Proverbs 25:23 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 25:23 The north wind brings forth rain: so (Prov. 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