James 3:12Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
Can a fig tree, my friends, bear olives? Or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.
Can a fig tree, my friends, bear olives? Or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.
Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, ‘Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Can I still bear sons who might become your husbands?
Ruth 1:12
Go back, my daughters, go your own way, because I am too old to have a husband. Even if I should say, “I have hope,” even if I should have a husband tonight and should bear sons,
Ruth 2:14
At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, ‘Come here and eat some of the food and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.’ So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was satisfied and had some left.
Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home. He called together his friends and Zeresh his wife
Esther 5:14
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, ‘Let a gallows seventy-five feet high be erected, and in the morning speak to the king and let Mordecai be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.’ The advice pleased Haman, and so he had the gallows erected.