9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are created according to [the] likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth come blessings and curses. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

11 The spring does not pour forth from the same opening [both ]the sweet and the bitter [water, does it]?

12 It is not possible, my brothers, [for] a fig tree to make olives, or a vine [to make ]figs, [is it]? Thus no spring is able to produce [both] salt and sweet water.