3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.
7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
8 But no one can tame the tongue, [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.