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“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil.
    It cannot be healed.
    Who can understand it?
10 But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart.
    I can test a person’s mind.
So I can decide what each one deserves.
    I can give each one the right payment for what he does.”

11 Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay.
    That bird is like the man who gets rich by cheating.
When that man’s life is half finished, he will lose his riches.
    At the end of his life, it will be clear he was 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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