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“·More than anything else [T Above all things], ·a person’s mind is evil [T the heart is deceitful; L the heart is devious/crooked]
    and ·cannot be healed [T desperately wicked; L it is perverse/sick].
    Who can ·understand [know] it?
10 But I, the Lord, ·look into a person’s [investigate/test the] heart
    and test the ·mind [L kidneys].
·So I can decide what each one deserves [L …to give to each according to his way/path];
    I can give each one the right payment for what he does.”

11 Like a ·bird [L partridge] hatching an egg it did not lay,
    so are the people who get rich ·by cheating [unjustly].
When their ·lives [L days] are half finished, ·they will lose their riches [L it will leave/abandon them].
    At the end of their lives, it will be clear 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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