Quotes About Testing

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.

I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”

Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?