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.

until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

neither give place unto the backbiter.