¹³ So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

³ What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

⁶ There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

²⁵ Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

²⁷ Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

¹³ Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

⁸ So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

²⁶ If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

³ Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

⁴ And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.