Etheridge(i)
1 LET there not be many teachers among you, my brethren, but know that a greater condemnation we incur.
2 For (in) many we all offend. Every one who in word offendeth not, this is a perfect man, who is able to make subject also all his body.
3 For, behold, bridles into the mouth of horses we throw that we may make them submissive to us, and their whole body we turn.
4 Also the mighty ships, while the furious winds drive them, by a little wood are turned about to the region which the will of him who guideth doth contemplate.
5 So also the tongue is a small member, and uplifteth itself. A little fire also burneth many forests; [Obee sagiyee mauqdo.]
6 and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.
7 For every nature of animals, and of birds, and reptiles of the sea, and of the dry land, have been subjected to the human nature;
8 but the tongue no one can subdue; this is an evil not ordered, (and) full of the poison of death.
9 For by it we bless the Lord and the Father, and by it we curse men who in the likeness of Aloha were made;
10 and from the same mouth go forth curses and blessings. My brethren, it is not fit that these should so be done.