James 3:12

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
- King James Version

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor {can} salt water produce fresh.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither `can' salt water yield sweet.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
- Basic English Bible

Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
- Darby Bible

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
- Webster's Bible

Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
- Weymouth Bible

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
- World English Bible

My britheren, whether a fige tre may make grapis, ethir a vyne figus? So nethir salt watir mai make swete watir.
- Wycliffe Bible

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.
- Youngs Literal Bible

People's Bible Notes for James 3:12

Jas 3:12 Can the fig tree . . . bear olive berries? Neither does a tree bear two opposite kinds of fruits. Nor should the mouth bear blessing and cursing, good and evil.