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