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


In Context

8 But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

9 By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

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

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

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

13 Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the 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 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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