American Standard Version

James 3:4-7 American Standard Version (ASV)

4. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

5. So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

6. And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

7. For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.