²³ The north wind brings forth rain: So a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

⁵ I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

²² Out of the north comes golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.

³ He who doesn't slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

²⁰ For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

³⁰ backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

²⁰ For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;