The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pure words, very different from those of the deceitful, ver. 3. (Calmet)
Earth, dross, or in the crucible, or "for the ruler of earth: "(Pagnin; Haydock) current money. If we alter the Hebrew a little, it may be, "with care, (bahalil, which is never elsewhere used for a crucible) gold refined seven times "often, (Proverbs xxiv. 16.) or as much as possible. (Calmet)