‘If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?’
—Job 4:2
‘Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath’
—James 1:19
‘Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
‘And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.’
—James 3:5-6
