Purified Seven Times?

Psalms 12:6 - The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Notice in this verse, it is the SILVER that is purified seven times, and then God's words, which already "are pure words" from the start, are compared to this purified silver. It is NOT God's word that is purified in this verse. How could it have ever been impure?

The comparison or parallelism in the verse is easy to figure out, if you just think about it. The silver is pure. God's word is also pure. The silver has been "tried" or proven to be pure, through putting it to the test of fire. God's word has also proven pure through every test, and never fails.

The English grammar of the verse is also simple. There are two clauses. The subject of the first clause is God's words.  This is everything up to the colon.  The subject of the second clause, after the colon, is silver.  You cannot take "purified..." from the second clause and pull in the noun from the first clause.  Everything after the colon is talking about silver.

Sometimes you will hear a rather ignorant argument about the King James Version being the seventh English Bible version, purified through the six prior versions to arrive in its pure state in 1611, as a fulfillment of this verse. This totally misses the verse and makes the "purified seven times" clause apply to the wrong thing. It also defies logic, for how could God's word need to be purified through human processes?

I use and recommend the KJV, by conviction and not simply preference, but I have no tolerance nor need for idiotic arguments such as the above (and many others from the same crowd) to make my case. We can make a case for the KJV and (better yet) the preserved text underlying it without looking like the three stooges, which is exactly what so many resemble when they make outlandish claims about it.

If you're going to promote using the KJV, at least learn how to read and understand what it says before using it to argue your position.  Is that too much to ask?

VM