The Deceitful Heart

The heart is more deceitful than anything else,(A)
and incurable—who can understand it?(B)

10 I, the Lord, examine the mind,
I test the heart[a](C)
to give to each according to his way,
according to what his actions deserve.(D)
11 He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his life
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.(E)

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Notas al pie

  1. 17:10 Lit kidneys

The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
    (B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

11 Like the (D)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
    so is (E)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(F)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
    (G)and at his end he will be a fool.

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys