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Henrey’s Commentary
Pro 17:3 -
Note, 1. The hearts of the children of men are subject, not only to God's view, but to his judgment: As the fining-pot is for silver, both to prove it and to improve it so the Lord tries the hearts; he searches whether they are standard or no, and those that are he refines and makes purer. God tries the heart by affliction and often chooses his people in that furnace and makes them choice. 2. It is God only that tries the hearts. Men may try their silver and gold with the fining-pot and the furnace, but they have no such way of trying one another's hearts; God only does that, who is both the searcher and the sovereign of the heart.
Humbled
1. Made low; abased; rendered meek and submissive; penitent.
Prove
1. To try; to ascertain some unknown quality or truth by an experiment, or by a test or standard.
2. To evince, establish or ascertain as truth, reality or fact, by testimony or other evidence.
3. To ascertain the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
4. To experience; to try by suffering or encountering; to gain certain knowledge by the operation of something on ourselves, or by some act of our own.
Evince
1. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident.
