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Taming the Tongue

James 3:11

In 9 translations

BSB
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?Literally Can both fresh and bitter
KJV
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
WEB
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
ASV
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
LSV
does the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
YLT
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
DBY
Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
DRC
Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
GNV
Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
RP2018
Μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
TR-Boyd
Μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
SCR1894
μητι η πηγη εκ της αυτης οπης βρυει το γλυκυ και το πικρον

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