3 For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.4 Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.5 So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests;6 and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.7 For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;8 but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death.