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OET (OET-LV) Out_of the same mouth is_coming_out blessing and curse.
Not is_ought brothers of_me these things thus to_be_becoming.
OET (OET-RV) Both blessings and curses come out of the same mouth! My brothers and sisters, it shouldn’t be like that.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ στόματος ἐξέρχεται εὐλογία καὶ κατάρα
out_of the same mouth /is/_coming_out blessing and curse
James is using the mouth to represent what people say, by association with the way the mouth is used for speech. Alternate translation: “The same person speaks blessing and cursing”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ στόματος ἐξέρχεται εὐλογία καὶ κατάρα
out_of the same mouth /is/_coming_out blessing and curse
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the abstract nouns blessing and cursing by stating the ideas behind them with equivalent expressions. Alternate translation: “The same person says things to bless God and to curse people”
εὐλογία
blessing
See how you translated the word “bless” in 3:9. You may wish to use a similar translation here. Alternate translation: “good sayings”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
οὐ χρή, ἀδελφοί μου, ταῦτα οὕτως γίνεσθαι
not /is/_ought brothers ˱of˲_me these_‹things› thus /to_be/_becoming
James is speaking here. Alternate translation: “My brothers, things like this should not happen”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἀδελφοί μου
brothers ˱of˲_me
See how you translated the term brothers in 1:2. Alternate translation: “my fellow believers”
OET (OET-LV) Out_of the same mouth is_coming_out blessing and curse.
Not is_ought brothers of_me these things thus to_be_becoming.
OET (OET-RV) Both blessings and curses come out of the same mouth! My brothers and sisters, it shouldn’t be like that.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.