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"I have made you an assayer and an examiner among My people, So that you may know and put their way to the test."

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a slanderer; They are bronze and iron. They are, all of them, corrupt.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.