Talmud zu Jirmejahu 17:10
אֲנִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה חֹקֵ֥ר לֵ֖ב בֹּחֵ֣ן כְּלָי֑וֹת וְלָתֵ֤ת לְאִישׁ֙ כדרכו [כִּדְרָכָ֔יו] כִּפְרִ֖י מַעֲלָלָֽיו׃ (ס)
Ich, der Herr, suche das Herz, ich versuche die Zügel, auch um jedem Menschen nach seinen Wegen zu geben, nach den Früchten seiner Taten.
Tractate Derekh Eretz Rabbah
Concerning him who deceives his partner, who does not return a lost object to its owner, who lends money to his fellow with the object of foreclosing his house or his field, who indulges in perversion with his wife, and who lays wanton charges against his wife in order to divorce her, Scripture declares, I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins.25Jer. 17, 10. [Büchler, Studies in Sin and Atonement, p. 401, n. 4, remarks: ‘These are things done in private or planned in the secret of the heart, against which the teachers fought by moral pressure’.]
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