The north wind driveth away the rain, even so doth an earnest sober countenance a backbiter's tongue.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.

backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,

neither give place unto the backbiter.