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“Who can understand the human heart?
    There is nothing else so deceitful;
    it is too sick to be healed.
10 (A)I, the Lord, search the minds
    and test the hearts of people.
I treat each of them according to the way they live,
    according to what they do.”

11 The person who gets money dishonestly
    is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn't lay.
In the prime of life he will lose his riches,
    and in the end he is nothing but 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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