⁶ and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.

⁷ For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;

⁸ but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.