Old Testament readings use the Septuagint , the Scripture the apostles quoted. Masoretic numbering shown for reference.Learn why
LXX2012

Sirach 2:5

For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
For as golde [& siluer are] tryed in the fyre, euen so are men acceptable in the fornace of aduersitie.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha