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.

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry ??20 for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

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

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.

For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;

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

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

If any one of you is in trouble, he should pray. If any one is in good spirits, he should sing a hymn.

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.