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A person's own mind deceives him,
    more than anything else does.
Nobody can change it to be better.
    Nobody completely understands it.
10 But I, the Lord, look inside a person's mind.
    I see what he thinks and what he feels.
I see how everyone lives,
    and I see the things that they do.
I give to each one what he deserves.
11 Someone may get rich because he cheats other people.
He is like a bird that sits on eggs
    that it has taken from another nest.
He will lose his riches before he is old.
    At the end of his life, he will die as a fool.’

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The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

10 “I the Lord search the heart(B)
    and examine the mind,(C)
to reward(D) each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”(E)

11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.(F)

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