Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
Updated King James 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
4A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:2And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in yours heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or no.
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto you.
Job 28:1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
Psalms 66:10For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you 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 →