Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 He keeps us alive
and does not allow our feet to slip.
10 For You, God, tested us;
You refined us as silver is refined.
11 You lured us into a trap;
You placed burdens on our backs.

Cross References

Psalm 17:3

You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

Isaiah 48:10

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

1 Peter 1:6-7

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

Deuteronomy 13:3

do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.

Job 23:10

Yet He knows the way I have taken;
when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Proverbs 17:3

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,
and the Lord is the tester of hearts.

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