11Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?


In Context

8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

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

11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

James 3:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:11Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:11Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:11Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?