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The heart is devious above all else;
    it is perverse—
    who can understand it?(A)
10 I the Lord test the mind
    and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
    according to the fruit of their doings.(B)

11 Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
    so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in midlife it will leave them,
    and at their end they will prove to be fools.

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The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately corrupt;
    who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the mind
    and try the heart,
to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his doings.”

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

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