Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Does a spring produce [both] fresh water and salt water from the same opening?
New American Standard Bible
Does a fountain send out from the same opening both
King James Version
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Holman Bible
Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter water from the same opening?
International Standard Version
A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?
A Conservative Version
Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?
American Standard Version
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Amplified
Does a spring send out from the same opening both
Anderson New Testament
Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?
Bible in Basic English
Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
Common New Testament
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
Daniel Mace New Testament
does a fountain throw up salt water and fresh, by the same conveyance?
Darby Translation
Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
Godbey New Testament
Whether does the fountain out of the same chink send forth sweet water and bitter?
Goodspeed New Testament
Does a spring pour forth fresh and brackish water from the same crevice?
John Wesley New Testament
Doth a fountain send out of the same place sweet water and bitter?
Julia Smith Translation
Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?
King James 2000
Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Lexham Expanded Bible
A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter [water, does it]?
Modern King James verseion
Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?
Moffatt New Testament
Does a fountain pour out fresh water and brackish from the same hole?
Montgomery New Testament
Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
NET Bible
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
New Heart English Bible
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Noyes New Testament
Doth a fountain from the same opening send forth sweet water and bitter?
Sawyer New Testament
Does a fountain send forth sweet water and bitter from the same opening?
The Emphasized Bible
Doth, the fountain, out of the same opening, teem forth the sweet and the bitter?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Doth a fountain from the same aperture spout forth sweet water and bitter?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Does a spring give both good and bad water from the same source?
Webster
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Weymouth New Testament
In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening?
Williams New Testament
A fountain cannot pour from the same opening fresh and brackish water, can it?
World English Bible
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Worrell New Testament
Does the fountain send forth, from the same opening, the sweet water and the bitter,
Worsley New Testament
Does a fountain from the same opening send forth sweet water and bitter?
Youngs Literal Translation
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
Themes
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (corrupt,) of the natural heart
Fountains and springs » Send forth each but one kind of water
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Restraining The Tongue
10 Praise and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be happening. 11 Does a spring produce [both] fresh water and salt water from the same opening? 12 My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine [produce] figs? Neither can a salt water [spring] produce fresh water.