New Revised Standard Version
but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Contemporary English Version
But our tongues get out of control. They are restless and evil, and always spreading deadly poison.

New American Bible
but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

an unruly.

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

Psalm 64:3,4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, . . .

full.

Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

Psalm 58:4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Ecclesiastes 10:11 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.