Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ought not (ou xrh). The only use of this old impersonal verb (from xraw) in the N.T. It is more like prepei (it is appropriate) than dei (it is necessary). It is a moral incongruity for blessing and cursing to come out of the same mouth.
So to be (outwv ginesqai). "So to keep on happening," not just "to be," present middle infinitive of ginomai.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 3:10:
Galatians 3:10
James 1:19
James 4:11
1 Peter 3:10
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