3 For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.

4 Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.

5 So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests;

6 and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.

7 For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;

8 but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death.