and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.

For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.

But no one can tame the human tongue; it is a restless evil [undisciplined, unstable], full of deadly poison.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.