Proverbs 27:21
As is the fining pot for siluer and the fornace for golde, so is euery man according to his dignitie.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
20The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:7And the women sang by course in their play, and sayd, Saul hath slayne his thousand, and Dauid his ten thousand.
1 Samuel 18:30And when the Princes of the Philistims went forth, at their going forth Dauid behaued himselfe more wisely then all the seruants of Saul, so that his name was much set by.
2 Samuel 15:6And on this maner did Absalom to al Israel, that came to the King for iudgement: so Absalom stale the hearts of the men of Israel.
Psalms 12:6The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde.
Proverbs 17:3As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.
Malachi 3:3And he shall sit downe to trye and fine the siluer: he shall euen fine the sonnes of Leui and purifie them as golde and siluer, that they may bring offerings vnto the Lord in righteousnesse.
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 →