![]() ![]() it brings out as a proved fact His power and love toward us in our preservation in and deliverance from trial. We rejoice in tribulation because it works out or produces patience, while the latter develops an experience of God, i.e. In Romans 5:4 the King James Version, the Greek word dokime (the American Standard Revised Version more correctly "approvedness"), means the proof or testing of a thing. my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." Here the Hebrew (ra'ah) means "hath seen abundantly," and the idea seems to be that of a wide outlook combined with actual trial of the things discovered or known. In Ecclesiastes 1:16, the writer says, "I have gotten me great wisdom. In Genesis 30:27 the King James Version, Laban says, to Jacob, "I have learned by experience (the Revised Version (British and American) "divined") that Yahweh hath blessed me for thy sake." Here it translates the Hebrew nachash, "to observe diligently," as when one examines the entrails of a bird or animal for the purpose of divination.
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