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

The Deceitfulness of the Human Heart

“The heart is more deceitful than anything.
    It is incurable—
        who can know it?
10 I am the Lord who searches the heart,
    who tests the inner depths
to give to each person
    according to what he deserves,[a]
        according to the fruit of his deeds.
11 As a partridge gathers together eggs
    that it didn’t lay,
so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly.
    In the middle of his life[b] it will leave him,
        and in the end he will prove to be a fool.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Lit. according to his way
  2. Jeremiah 17:11 Lit. at half of his days