¹¹ If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

⁴ Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

⁵ Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

¹⁷ For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

³ Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

²¹ Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

⁶ and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.