Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
In Context
4An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off
Job 28:1Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
Psalms 66:10For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:3
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. Note, 1. True merit does not go by dignity. All agree that the son in the family is more worthy than the servant ( John viii. 35 ), and yet sometimes it so happens that the servant is wise, and a blessing and credit to the family, when the son is a fool, and a burden and shame to the family. Eliezer of Damascus, though Abram could not bear to think that he should be his heir, was a stay to the… Read the whole commentary →