Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The declaration 'the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?' is the Hebrew Bible's most unambiguous statement of the depth and opacity of human moral corruption. The Hebrew 'aqov' (deceitful, literally 'heeled,' related to Jacob's name) and 'anush' (incurably sick, translated 'desperately wicked') create a portrait of the heart as both self-deceived and beyond human remedy. The question 'who can know it?' is answered in verse 10 by God alone — the divine search of heart and mind that the human subject cannot perform on itself. Romans 7:15's 'I do not understand my own actions' and 1 Corinthians 4:4's 'I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified' both reflect Pauline anthropology shaped by this Jeremianic diagnosis of the heart's self-opacity.
अन्य अनुवाद
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
क्रॉस संदर्भ
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