James 3:5-10 So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how tiny a spark may set the largest forest ablaze!

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how tiny a spark may set the largest forest ablaze! ⁶ And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit. ⁷ For while all sorts of beasts and birds, and of reptiles and creatures in the sea, are tameable, and actually have been tamed by man, ⁸ No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison! ⁹ With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made 'in God's likeness.' ¹⁰ From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My Brothers, it is not right that this should be so.