3 Lo, of the horses the bits into the mouths we put in order that to make obedient them to us, and whole the body of them we turn about.

4 Lo, also the ships, so great being, and by violent winds being driven, are turned about by a very small helm, wherever the will of the one steering pleases.

5 Thus also the tongue a little member is, and greatly boasts. Lo, a little fire how great a mass of fuel kindles.

6 And the tongue of fire, the world of the wickedness; thus the tongue is placed among the members of us, that spotting whole the body, and setting on fire the wheel of the nature, and being set on fire by the gehenna.

7 Every for species of wild beasts both and of birds, of reptiles both and of things in the sea, is subdued and has been subdued by the nature by that belonging to man;

8 the but tongue no one is able of men to subdue; and unruly evil, full of poison deathproducing.