Santiago 3:11

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

¿Echa alguna fuente por una misma abertura agua dulce y amarga?

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
¿Acaso una fuente por la misma abertura echa agua dulce y amarga?

La Biblia Reina-Valera
�Echa alguna fuente por una misma abertura agua dulce y amarga?

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
�Echa alguna fuente por una misma abertura agua dulce y amarga?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

place: or, hole, James 3:11

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place,.... "Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny m observes, it may send forth

sweet [water] and bitter: and it is reported n, there is a lake with the Trogloditae, a people in Ethiopia, which becomes thrice a day bitter, and then as often sweet; but then it does not yield sweet water and bitter at the same time: this simile is used to show how unnatural it is that blessing and cursing should proceed out of the same mouth.

m Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 103. n Isodor. Hispal. Originum, l. 13. c. 13. p. 115.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place - Margin, “hole.” The Greek word means “opening, fissure,” such as there is in the earth, or in rocks from which a fountain gushes.

Sweet water and bitter - Fresh water and salt, James 3:12. Such things do not occur in the works of nature, and they should not be found in man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. Doth a fountain send forth - sweet water and bitter? — In many things nature is a sure guide to man; but no such inconsistency is found in the natural world as this blessing and cursing in man. No fountain, at the same opening, sends forth sweet water and bitter; no fig tree can bear olive berries; no vine can bear figs; nor can the sea produce salt water and fresh from the same place. These are all contradictions, and indeed impossibilities, in nature. And it is depraved man alone that can act the monstrous part already referred to.