14 Bible Verses about Things Like Silver

If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.

To get wisdom -- how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.

The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, So are ye melted in its midst, And ye have known that I, Jehovah, I have poured out My fury upon you.'

And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness.

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

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

Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.

'Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!

The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,

While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.