9. The human mind is more deceitful than anything else.It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
10. I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds.I examine people’s hearts.I deal with each person according to how he has behaved.I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
11. The person who gathers wealth by unjust meansis like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them.Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains.At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
12. Then I said, “Lord, from the very beginning you have been seated on your glorious throne on high.You are the place where we can find refuge.