Verse Comparison: James 3:12
American Standard Version
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither `can' salt water yield sweet.
Amplified® Bible
Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine figs? Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water.
Contemporary English Version
Can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine produce figs? Does fresh water come from a well full of salt water?
Darby English Version
Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
Good News Bible
A fig tree, my friends, cannot bear olives; a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring produce sweet water.
International Standard Version
My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
King James Version
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
New American Standard Bible
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor {can} salt water produce fresh.
New International Version
My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
New King James Version
Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
Young's Literal Translation
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.
