Is it good that he should search you out?\par\tab Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Will not God search this out?\par\tab For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.\par
Search me, O God, and know my heart:\par\tab Try me, and know my thoughts;
Would that Job were tried unto the end,\par\tab Because of his answering like wicked men.
Surely there are mockers with me,\par\tab And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.\par
With him is strength and wisdom;\par\tab The deceived and the deceiver are his.
But man dieth, and is laid low:\par\tab Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?