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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“The (A)heart is deceitful above all things,
And [a]desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, (B)search the heart,
I test the [b]mind,
(C)Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.

11 As a partridge that [c]broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It (D)will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be (E)a fool.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 17:9 Or incurably sick
  2. Jeremiah 17:10 Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
  3. Jeremiah 17:11 Sits on eggs