Verse List for PROV 27:21

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OET (OET-RV) There’s a smelting pot for silver, and a furnace for gold, ⇔ but a person is refined by the praise they receive.

OET-LV A _crucible is_for_silver and_a _furnace is_for_gold and_a _person is_to_the _mouth _of his _praise _of_his.

ULT The smelting-pot, is for the silver and the furnace, is for the gold; ⇔ so, is a man for the mouth of one who praises him.

UST People use crucibles and furnaces to test and refine silver and gold. ⇔  In the same way, people can know what kind of person someone is by how he reacts when people praise him.

BSB & MSB A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, ⇔  but a man [is tested] by the praise accorded him.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The crucible is for silver, ⇔  and the furnace for gold; ⇔  but man is refined by his praise.

NET As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, ⇔ so a person is proved by the praise he receives.

LSV A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold,
And a man according to his praise.

FBV Just as a crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, people are tested by the praise they receive.

T4T ⇔  Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure, ⇔  and [SIM] people learn what we are really like when they see how we react when people praise us.

LEB • A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold,
• but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.

BBE The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

Moff The smelter for silver, the furnace for gold, ⇔  but man is tested by his praise.

JPS The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.

ASV The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; ⇔ And a man is tried by his praise.

DRA As silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

YLT A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

Drby The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.

RV The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.

SLT The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him.

Wbstr As the fining-pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

KJB-1769 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

KJB-1611 As the fining pot for siluer, and the furnace for gold: so is a man to his praise.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.
(As is the fining pot for the silver, and the furnace for gold: so is a man tried by the mouth of him that praiseth him.)

Gnva As is the fining pot for siluer and the fornace for golde, so is euery man according to his dignitie.
(As is the fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so is every man according to his dignity.)

Cvdl Syluer is tryed in the moulde, & golde in the fornace, & so is a man, whan he is openly praysed to his face.
(Syluer is tried in the moulde, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.)

Wycl As siluer is preuyd in a wellyng place, and gold `is preued in a furneys; so a man is preued bi the mouth of preyseris. The herte of a wickid man sekith out yuels; but a riytful herte sekith out kunnyng.
(As silver is preuyd in a welling place, and gold is proved in a furneys; so a man is proved by the mouth of praiseris. The heart of a wicked man seeketh/seeks out evils; but a rightful heart seeketh/seeks out cunning.)

Luth Ein Mann wird durch den Mund des Lobers bewähret wie das Silber im Tiegel und das Gold im Ofen.
(A man becomes through the mouth the Praisers proven as/like the silver(n) in_the Tiegel and the Gold in_the oven.)

ClVg Quomodo probatur in conflatorio argentum et in fornace aurum, sic probatur homo ore laudantis. Cor iniqui inquirit mala, cor autem rectum inquirit scientiam.
(How/In_what_manner approved in/into/on smelterio silver and in/into/on furnace gold, so approved man vocally they_praiseis. Heart unjust inquirit evil, heart however rightness/accuracy inquirit knowledge.)

UHB מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭⁠כֶּסֶף וְ⁠כ֣וּר לַ⁠זָּהָ֑ב וְ֝⁠אִ֗ישׁ לְ⁠פִ֣י מַהֲלָלֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX Δοκίμιον ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσῷ πύρωσις, ἀνὴρ δὲ δοκιμάζεται διὰ στόματος ἐγκωμιαζόντων αὐτόν.

BrTr Fire is the trial for silver and gold; and a man is tried by the mouth of them that praise him.