ECB(i)
2 for we all stumble much. If anyone stumbles not in word, this one is a completed/shalamed man, also able to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold the horses; we put bits in their mouths to obey us; and we turn their whole body.
4 Behold, also the sailers; being so great and driven of hard winds; yet are they turned by a very short rudder wherever the violent impulse of the straightener wills.
5 Thus also the tongue; a little member that boasts mega. Behold, how much forest a little fire lights!
6 And the tongue is a fire - a cosmos of injustice: thus the tongue sits among our members to stain the whole body and inflame the track of genetics; and it is inflamed by Gay Hinnom/the Valley of Burning.
7 For all nature, both of beasts and of flyers, both of creepers and of those in the sea, is tamed - and has been tamed by human nature:
8 but the tongue, no human can tame - an unrestrainable evil full of death bearing venom:
9 therein we eulogize our Elohim and Father; and therein we curse humanity who became after the likeness of Elohim.
10 From the same mouth comes eulogy and cursing. My brothers, these need not be thus.
11 A fountain, at the same cavern, sends it sweet and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, make olives? Or a vine, figs? Thus no fountain makes both salt water and fresh.