As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
James 3:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter? American Standard Version (1901) Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? Common English Bible Both fresh water and salt water don’t come from the same spring, do they? Catholic Public Domain Version Does a fountain emit, out of the same opening, both sweet and bitter water? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? |
As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.