TSK · Isaiah 48:10

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

Therefore the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘These are my people,’ and they will say,‘The LORD is my God.’”

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.