Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver:

New American Standard Bible

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

King James Version

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Holman Bible

For You, God, tested us;
You refined us as silver is refined.

International Standard Version

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

A Conservative Version

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

American Standard Version

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Amplified


For You have tested us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

Bible in Basic English

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Darby Translation

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.

King James 2000

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Modern King James verseion

For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.

NET Bible

For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

New Heart English Bible

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Webster

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

World English Bible

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Praise For God's Mighty Acts

9 Who hath set our soul among the living, And hath not suffered, our foot, to slip. 10 For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver: 11 Thou didst bring us into the hunter's net, Thou didst lay a load upon our loins;

Cross References

Psalm 17:3

Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

Isaiah 48:10

Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, - I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold, - It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, is my God!

1 Peter 1:6-7

Wherein ye exult, though, for a little, just now, if needful, put to grief in manifold temptations,

Deuteronomy 8:2

So then, thou shalt remember all the way in which Yahweh thy God caused thee to journey these forty years in the desert, - that he might humble time to put thee to the proof to know what was in thy heart, - whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed thee with manna in the desert, which thy fathers had not known, - that he might humble thee, and that he might put thee to the proof, to do thee good in thy hereafter,

Deuteronomy 13:3

thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams, - for Yahweh your God, is putting you to the proof, to know whether ye do love Yahweh your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.

Job 23:10

But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

Proverbs 17:3

Fining-pot for silver, crucible for gold, but, he that trieth hearts, is Yahweh.

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