Teks -- James 3:10 (NET)

3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

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Robertson: Jam 3:10 - Ought not

Ought not ( ou chrē ).

The only use of this old impersonal verb (from chraō ) in the N.T. It is more like prepei (it is appropriate) than dei (it is necessary). It is a moral incongruity for blessing and cursing to come out of the same mouth.

Robertson: Jam 3:10 - So to be

So to be ( houtōs ginesthai ).

"So to keep on happening,"not just "to be,"present middle infinitive of ginomai .

JFB: Jam 3:10

The tongue, says ÆSOP, is at once the best and the worst of things. So in a fable, a man with the same breath blows hot and cold. "Life and death are in the power of the tongue" (compare Psa 62:4).

JFB: Jam 3:10 - brethren

An appeal to their consciences by their brotherhood in Christ.

JFB: Jam 3:10 - ought not so to be

A mild appeal, leaving it to themselves to understand that such conduct deserves the most severe reprobation.

Clarke: Jam 3:10 - Out of the same mouth

Out of the same mouth - This saying is something like that, Pro 18:21 : Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and on this, for an illustration of St. James’ words, hear Vayikra Rabba, sec. 33: "Rabbi Simeon, the son of Gamaliel, said to his servant Tobias, Go and bring me some good food from the market: the servant went, and he bought tongues. At another time he said to the same servant, Go and buy me some bad food: the servant went, and bought tongues. The master said, What is the reason that when I ordered thee to buy me good and bad food, thou didst bring tongues? The servant answered, From the tongue both good and evil come to man: if it be good, there is nothing better; if bad, there is nothing worse.

A saying very like that of St. James as found in Rabbi Tanchum, fol. 10, 4: "The mouth desires to study in the law, and to speak good words; to praise God, to glorify him, and to celebrate him with hymns: but it can also slander, blaspheme, reproach, and swear falsely."See Schoettgen

To find a man who officiates in sacred things to be a common swearer, a slanderer, etc., is truly monstrous; but there have been many cases of this kind, and I have known several. Let me say to all such, My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Calvin: Jam 3:10 - NO PHRASE

This particular truth ought also to be borne in mind, that severe censors discover their own virulence, which they suddenly vomit forth against their brethren whatever curses they can imagine, after having in sweet strains offered praises to God. Were any one to object and say, that the image of God in human nature has been blotted out by the sin of Adam; we must, indeed, confess that it has been miserably deformed, but in such a way that some of its lineaments still appear. Righteousness and rectitude, and the freedom of choosing what is good, have been lost; but many excellent endowments, by which we excel the brutes, still remain. He, then, who truly worships and honors God, will be afraid to speak slanderously of man.

TSK: Jam 3:10 - of // these

of : Psa 50:16-20; Jer 7:4-10; Mic 3:11; Rom 12:14; 1Pe 3:9

these : Gen 20:9; 2Sa 13:12; 1Co 3:3; 1Ti 5:13

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Poole: Jam 3:10 - These things ought not so to be

He repeats here, by way of exaggeration, what he had said Jam 3:9 , to show how exceedingly absurd it is that two such contrary actions should proceed from the same agent.

These things ought not so to be there is a meiosis in the words; he means, things should be quite contrary. See the like expression, 1Ti 5:13 Tit 1:11 .

Haydock: Jam 3:9-13 - By it we bless God // Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you?

By it we bless God, &c. Such different effects from the same cause, as of blessing God, and cursing men, created to the likeness of God, seem contrary to the ordinary course of nature; from a fountain from the same source doth not send forth both sweet and bitter streams. ---

Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? &c. This seems to be connected with the admonition given at the beginning of the chapter, be not many masters; let none pretend to this but who have wisdom and knowledge, which also may be known by their prudent and mild conversation.

Gill: Jam 3:10 - Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing // my brethren, these things ought not so to be

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing,.... Which is not only a contradiction, but unnatural, as well as wicked and sinful:

my brethren, these things ought not so to be: in any, and much less in professors of religion: such things are unbecoming men, are a scandal upon human nature, and exceeding unworthy of the Christian name; see Psa 50:16.