James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
In other versions
So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
ASV
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
BBE
Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
DBY
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
WEB
so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
YLT
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
ENG
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
WBT
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
BSB
In context
3Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6And 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.
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: