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The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
    (B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”
11 Like the (D)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
    so is (E)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(F)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
    (G)and at his end he will be a fool.

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  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys

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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