⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

¹⁰ I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

⁷ Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

² Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.

³⁶ I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

²¹ Won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

²² Now therefore don't you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.