Proverbs 17:3
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Crucible Fining Fining-Pot Furnace Gold Heart Hearts Heating-Pot Oven-Fire Pot Refining Silver Tester Tests Trier Tries Trieth
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English Standard Version
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.

New American Standard Bible
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold, and the LORD is the tester of hearts.

International Standard Version
The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold— but the LORD assays hearts.

NET Bible
The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A refining pot proves silver, and the furnace gold, and Lord Jehovah tests the heart.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The crucible is for refining silver and the smelter for gold, but the one who purifies hearts [by fire]is the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

American King James Version
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

American Standard Version
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Darby Bible Translation
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

World English Bible
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Young's Literal Translation
A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.
Lexicon
The fining pot
mitsreph  (mits-rafe')
a crucible -- fining pot.
is for silver
keceph  (keh'-sef)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money -- money, price, silver(-ling).
and the furnace
kuwr  (koor)
a pot or furnace (as if excavated) -- furnace.
for gold
zahab  (zaw-hawb')
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky -- gold(-en), fair weather.
but the LORD
Yhovah  (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
trieth
bachan  (baw-khan')
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate -- examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
the hearts
libbah  (lib-baw')
the heart -- heart.
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