Proverbs 17:3

The hearts of men cannot be searched and known by any human art, but by God only.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 17:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wonderful as is the separation of the pure metal from the dross with which it has mingled, there is something yet more wonderful in the divine disc...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family ( Proverbs 17:2 ), the practice of bribes ( Proverbs 1...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. trieth the hearts. Illustrations: Abraham ( Genesis 22:1 ); Israel ( Deuteronomy 8:2 ); Hezekiah ( 2 Chronic...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. The fining pot is for silver - When silver is mixed, or sus...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. The fining pot (is) for silver, and the furnace for g...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the festal meal which followed a sacrifice ( Proverbs 7:14 ) if it was accompanie...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fining pot is for silver. — See above on Proverbs 2:4 . The Lord trieth the hearts. — By allowing sorrows and temptations to assail them, i...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the ma...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:3 . Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dro...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ea...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold ,.... Refiners of silver have their fining pots, in which they purify the silver from the d...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. Ver. 3. The fining pot is for silver, &c. ] God also...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the L ORD trieth the hearts. Note, 1. The hearts of the children of...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 17:3 THE TRIER OF HEARTS We have here an analogy implied between men’s hearts and gold and silver. I. Both have a...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 17:1 . Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith. See Proverbs 15:17 . Proverbs 17:3 . The fining pot is for silver, and the fu...
The Biblical Illustrator

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts. God’s fining pot and furnace The text is a parabolical...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16 , Proverbs 15:17 ; Proverbs 16:8 .) Better (sweeter) is a dry morsel, and quietness th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 3. Th e fining-pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, their nature and purity in either case being brought out by the process to which th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:7 ; Isaiah 48:10 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Malachi 3:2 ; Malachi 3:3 ; Proverbs 27:21 ; Psalms 26:2 ; Psalms 66:10 ; Revelation 2:23 ; Z...

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

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 17:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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