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A Deceitful Heart is Incurable

“The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and incurable—who can know it?
10 I Adonai search the heart,
    I try the mind,
    to give every man according to his ways,
        according to the fruit of his deeds.
11 As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay,
    so is one who gets wealth, unjustly.
    In the middle of his days it will abandon him,
    so at his end he will be a fool.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:11 cf. Luke 12:20.

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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