3:1 My achim (Brethren), let not many become teachers, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3:3 Consider that we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
3:4 Consider also the ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot desires.
3:5 Even so the lashon (tongue) is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
3:6 And the lashon [is] a fire, a Olam haAvel (world of iniquity): so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 Therewith bless we Elohim (אלהים), even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of Elohim (אלהים).
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My achim (Brethren), these things ought not so to be.
3:11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
3:12 Can the fig tree, my achim (Brethren), bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt mayim and fresh.
3:13 Who among you is wise and instructed among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the gentleness of wisdom.
3:14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descends not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, shadim (devilish).
3:16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then full of shalom, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
3:18 And the fruits of tzedakah is sown in quietness of them that make shalom.