¹⁰ But he said to her, “You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. ^(A)Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?” ^(B)Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

⁵ So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it ^(A)boasts of great things.

^(B)See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! ⁶ And ^(C)the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among ^[a]our body’s parts as that which ^(D)defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our ^[b]life, and is set on fire by ^[c](E)hell. ⁷ For every ^[d]species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human ^[e]race. ⁸ But no one among mankind can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of ^(F)deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless ^(G)our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, ^(H)who have been made in the likeness of God; ¹⁰ from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way. ¹¹ Does a spring send out from the same opening both ^[f]fresh and bitter water? ^12 (I)Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce ^[g]fresh.