Sirach 27:5-7

Wycliffe Bible

⁵ A furnace proveth the vessels of a potter; and the temptation of tribulation proveth just [or rightwise] men.

⁶ As churl-like travail about a tree showeth the fruit thereof, so a word of thought showeth the heart of man. [As the earth-working of a tree showeth the fruit of him, so a word of thinking the heart of a man.]

⁷ Praise thou not a man before a word fully ended; for why this is the temptation, that is, (the) proving, of men.