For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:
For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts, and creeping things of the earth, and fowls of the air.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.