9 With it we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God:

10 out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

11 Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?

12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.