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"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

"I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, To give to each person according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

"As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is a person who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the middle of his days it will abandon him, And in the end he will be a fool."

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.