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The heart is deceitful more than anything else,
    and it is disastrous. Who can understand it?
10 I, Yahweh, examine the mind,[a]
    I test the heart,[b]
and give to each one according to his way,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    is one who amasses wealth without justice.
In the middle of his days it will leave him,
    and at his end he will prove to be a fool.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Literally “heart”
  2. Jeremiah 17:10 Literally “kidneys”

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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