“But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:8 But no man can tame the tongue - Of another; no, nor his own, without peculiar help from God.
Jas 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame. Man has never tamed this organ as a whole. Some may have ruled their own, but the organ itself still does its evil work in the world. [It is] an unruly evil. Not only an evil, but unruly. Generally used. Full of deadly poison. Often charged with malice, envy, anger, slander, etc.