As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
LXX
Proverbs 17:3
As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
Parallel Translations
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.
Cross References
Isaiah 48:10Jeremiah 17:10Psalms 26:2Proverbs 27:211 Chronicles 29:171 Peter 1:7Psalms 66:10Revelation 2:23Malachi 3:2–3Zechariah 13:9
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