Proverbs 27:21

Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure, and [SIM] people learn what we are really like when they see how we react when people praise us.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

In Context

20It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there; and humans [SYN] are always wanting to acquire more things, too.

22Even if you beat/crush a fool severely like [MET] you pulverize grain with a pestle, you probably will not be able to cause him to stop ◄being foolish/doing foolish things►.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:7As they danced, they sang this song to each other: “Saul has killed 1,000 enemy soldiers, But David has killed 10,000 of them.”

1 Samuel 18:30The Philistine armies repeatedly came to fight the Israelis, but every time they fought, David and his soldiers were more successful than any of Saul’s other army commanders. As a result, David became very famous.

2 Samuel 15:6Absalom did this to everyone in Israel who came to the king because of having a dispute with someone. In that way, Absalom persuaded all the Israeli people to be more pleased with him [IDM] than they were pleased with David.

Psalms 12:6Yahweh, you always do what you have promised to do; what you have promised is as precious and pure as silver that has been heated seven times in a furnace to get rid of all the impure material.

Proverbs 17:3Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure, and Yahweh similarly examines people’s inner beings to see if they are pure.

Malachi 3:3He will be like a worker who sits in front of his work to cause silver to become pure by burning all the impurities. Like a worker refines silver and gold, he will cause the ◄descendants of Levi/priests► to become pure, in order that they will again become acceptable to offer sacrifices that will be acceptable to him.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:21

20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. Two things are here said to be insatiable, and they are two things near of kin—death and sin. 1. Death is insatiable. The first death, the second death, both are so. The grave is not clogged with the multitude of dead bodies that are daily thrown into it, but is still an open sepulchre, and cries, Give, give. Hell also has enlarged itself, and still has room for the damned spirits that are committed to that prison. Tophet is deep and… Read the whole commentary →

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