Proverbs 17:3
A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, || And the trier of hearts [is] YHWH.
Literal Standard 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 evildoer is attentive to lips of vanity, || Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:2and you have remembered all the way which your God YHWH has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you to try you, to know that which [is] in your heart, whether you keep His commands or not.
1 Chronicles 29:17And I have known, my God, that You are trying the heart, and desire uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these; and now, I have seen Your people who are found here with joy to offer willingly to You.
Job 28:1“Surely there is a source for silver, || And a place for the gold they refine;
Psalms 66:10For You have tried us, O God, || You have refined us as the refining of silver.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering hearts.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, and not with silver, || I have chosen you in a 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 →