Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.
James 3:11 - Catholic Public Domain Version Does a fountain emit, out of the same opening, both sweet and bitter water? Matoleo zaidiKing 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? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? English Standard Version 2016 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? |
Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.
From the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so!
My brothers, can the fig tree yield grapes? Or the vine, figs? Then neither is salt water able to produce fresh water.