²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

¹¹ Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

³ The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

²⁰ But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

¹⁰ 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.