23 The north wind brings forth rain,
And (A)a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

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23 Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain
    is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look.

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20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that (A)I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;

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20 For I am afraid that when I come(A) I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.(B) I fear that there may be discord,(C) jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,(D) slander,(E) gossip,(F) arrogance(G) and disorder.(H)

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30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;(A)

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20 Where there is no wood, the fire goes out;
And where there is no [a]talebearer, strife ceases.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:20 gossip or slanderer, lit. whisperer

20 Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.(A)

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He who (A)does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
(B)Nor does he [a]take up a reproach against his friend;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 15:3 receive

whose tongue utters no slander,(A)
    who does no wrong to a neighbor,
    and casts no slur on others;

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22 He comes from the north as golden splendor;
With God is awesome majesty.

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22 Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;(A)
    God comes in awesome majesty.(B)

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Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
(A)The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.

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Whoever slanders their neighbor(A) in secret,
    I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes(B) and a proud heart,
    I will not tolerate.

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