NETBible | Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, 1 or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. |
NIV © |
My brothers, can a fig-tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. |
NASB © |
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. |
NLT © |
Can you pick olives from a fig tree or figs from a grapevine? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty pool. |
MSG © |
Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? |
BBE © |
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? |
NRSV © |
Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh. |
NKJV © |
Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. |
KJV | Can <3361> <1410> (5736) the fig tree <4808>_, my <3450> brethren <80>_, bear <4160> (5658) olive berries <1636>_? either <2228> a vine <288>_, figs <4810>_? so <3779> [can] no <3762> fountain <4077> both yield <4160> (5658) salt <252> water <5204> and <2532> fresh <1099>_. |
NASB © |
Can <1410> a fig <4808> tree <4808> , my brethren <80> , produce <4160> olives <1636> , or <2228> a vine <288> produce <4160> figs <4810> ? Nor <3777> can salt <252> water <5204> produce <4160> fresh .<1099> |
NET [draft] ITL | Can <1410> a fig tree <4808> produce <4160> olives <1636> , my <3450> brothers and sisters <80> , or <2228> a vine <288> produce figs <4810> ? Neither <3777> can a salt <252> water spring produce <4160> fresh <1099> water .<5204> |
GREEK | mh dunatai mou sukh elaiav poihsai ampelov suka oute alukon gluku poihsai |
NETBible | Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, 1 or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. |
NET Notes |
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2. |