⁷ For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

^{8 Ref} But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

^{9 Ref} With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

^{8 Ref} and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

^{9 Ref} with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

^{8 Ref} But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

^{9 Ref} Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.