James 3:11

World English Bible (WEB)

Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

In context

9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

WEB World English Bible: Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
KJV King James Version: Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
ASV American Standard Version: Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
DBY Darby Translation: Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
WBS Webster Bible: Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?