Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Shall not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong: for a consummation, and that determined, have I heard from the Lord, the LORD of hosts, upon the whole earth.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me and know my thoughts:
Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye abideth in their provocation.
With him is strength and effectual working; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?