James 3:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Does a spring gush forth from the same opening both pure and brackish water?

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As a well keeps its waters fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This need not be so, my brothers.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can salt water yield fresh. True Wisdom.