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“Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind.
    It can be very sick,
    and no one really understands it.
10 But I am the Lord,
    and I can look into a person’s heart.
I can test a person’s mind and decide what each one should have.
    I can give each person the right payment for what they do.
11 Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay.
    Those who cheat to get money are like that bird.
But when their lives are half finished, they will lose the money.
    At the end of their lives, it will be clear that they were fools.”

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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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