12Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.


In Context

9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.

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

12 Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water make sweet water.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

14 but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

James 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can'salt water yield sweet.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.