Proverbs 17:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 17:3 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Proverbs 27:21
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast 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 thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3)

Note, 1. The hearts of the children of men are subject, not only to God’s view, but to his judgment: As the fining-pot is for silver, both to prove it and to improve it so the Lord tries the hearts; he searches whether they are standard or no, and those that are he refines and makes purer, Jer. 17:10. God tries the heart by affliction (Ps. 66:10, 11), and often chooses his people in that furnace (…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. God only knows, as He tries (Psa 12:6; 66:10) the heart.