James 3:4-8 Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases. ⁵ So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea animals, can be, or have been, tamed by man; ⁸ but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, full of deadly poison.