3 Behold, we put bits in horses mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the helmsman desires.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how large a forest a little fire kindles.
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.
7 For every kind of beast and bird, and of creeping thing and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
8 But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.