⁷ For every ^[a]species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human ^[b]race. ⁸ But no one among mankind can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of ^(A)deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless ^(B)our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, ^(C)who have been made in the likeness of God; ¹⁰ from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way. ¹¹ Does a spring send out from the same opening both ^[c]fresh and bitter water? ^12 (D)Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce ^[d]fresh.