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The heart is more deceitful than all things
    and desperately wicked;
    who can understand it?

10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
    I test the mind,
even to give to every man according to his ways,
    and according to the fruit of his deeds.

11 As the partridge sits on eggs which it has not laid,
    so is he who gets riches, but not justly;
it will forsake him in the midst of his days,
    and in the end he will be 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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