James 3:6-9 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our several parts, defiling the whole body, inflaming the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Worsley⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our several parts, defiling the whole body, inflaming the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every kind of wild beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and hath been tamed by mankind: ⁸ but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless God even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God: