212. Deceived Hearts And God’s Desires (Proverbs 21:2-3)

The Scoffer And The Lord

4/12/2026

Turn with me to Proverbs 21:2-3. These are our verses to study and memorize.

Proverbs 21:2-3 Every man’s way is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts. 3 To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice.

Introduction

The overall focus of this new chapter shifts from the scoffer and the king to the scoffer and God. As in the previous section, many of the middle verses highlight the wrong behaviors of the scoffing mocker. There are some differences, though. Whereas most of chapter 20 had a negative tone, in chapter 21 the negative behavior of the scoffer is more evenly contrasted with the positive, right kind of behavior that should characterize God’s people. Essentially, we are seeing the so-called “right behavior” that people have in their own eyes versus what is truly right behavior in God’s eyes.

In this new section, verses 2 and 3 match verses 30 and 31 to form a bookended emphasis on God’s sovereignty over the scoffing mocker, our actions, and the nations.

Verse 2 declares that God sovereignly weighs people’s motives and actions, despite their thinking they are right in their own eyes. Verse 31 declares that victory in battle belongs to God, despite what preparations people might make. He is sovereign over individual hearts and entire nations.

Verse 3 declares the emptiness of sacrifices to God without true righteousness. Meanwhile, verse 30 declares the futility of any so-called wisdom and counsel against God. Nothing outside God’s true standard of righteousness and wisdom can accomplish anything worthwhile.

Altogether, this frames the intervening verses as a contrast between the flourishing of the true righteousness of the wise and the empty sacrifices of the foolish, wicked scoffer. Because of God’s sovereignty in weighing hearts and directing nations, and because of God’s unwavering standard of righteousness and wisdom, everyone is ultimately accountable to Him. The upright will be blessed, and the scoffing mocker judged.

Within the rest of the chapter, three main sections stand out. Verses 4-8 begin by focusing on the foundational sin of pride. Then it highlights a few key themes that will be repeated in the next sections. Financial stability and blessing for righteousness are contrasted with the ruin and death that come upon wickedness. It concludes by contrasting the crooked behavior of sinners with the upright way of the pure.

Verses 9-18 and then 19-29 both begin with the problem of living with a contentious woman. They both end with a consideration of the way of the upright. In the middle, both sections also heavily deal with the ruin of the scoffer’s wicked way of life and the blessing and prosperity of wise living.

With that overview of where we are going in our study of this chapter, let’s take a closer look now at God’s sovereignty over our lives in Proverbs 21:2-3.

2 Every man’s way is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts.

People justify their actions, thinking they are right, but God is the one who judges the truth of our hearts and motives.

God is the sovereign judge of right and wrong. We are not. As this verse tells us, we often view ourselves through rose-colored glasses. Our ingrained bias leads us to think better of ourselves than the truth is in reality. It is so easy to justify ourselves and make excuses for our actions or thoughts. To make the problem worse, even when we do the right thing, we may be doing it with sinful motives. We quite naturally convince ourselves that our reasons are pure and right simply because we want something.

God’s vision is not clouded by our view of things. God sees everything that we do. God sees everything about what we do. God sees all the evil motives or the mixed motives within our actions. Nothing is hidden from Him. He sees when we seek to exalt ourselves. He sees when we have immoral thoughts. He sees when we are manipulating people. He sees when we give the silent treatment to hurt people. He sees when we are selfish. He sees when we cloak things in religious excuses. He sees when we are greedy. He sees and weighs everything. He is omniscient and never deceived.

So when God says that our “heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” in Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV), He is speaking from His experience of seeing and weighing people’s hearts. When He says in Isaiah 64:6 (KJV) that “all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags,” He knows exactly what He is talking about. He sees everything in, through, and behind all of our actions. In truth, we are filthy even in our so-called righteous deeds.

This is why God universally declares in multiple places in Scripture that “there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Psalm 14:3, 53:3; and Romans 3:12). God weighs our hearts and has found none of us to be righteous.

It is precisely because of our flawed, sinful lives and our flawed judgment of ourselves that we are being warned about it over and over again here in Proverbs.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

This is something we urgently need to be warned about and aware of. We are so flawed in our judgment that we can think we are going on the right and best way of life and be headed straight to our doom. This truth is so important that Proverbs 16:25 repeats that verse verbatim in another context. Meanwhile, our proverb is a very near copy of what we were taught back in Proverbs 16:2.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the LORD weighs the motives.

Our proverb changes “clean” to “right” and “motives” to “heart,” but the essence of the point remains the same. We think our motives are clean or pure. We think our actions are right. Nonetheless, our very hearts, which produce our actions, are going to be weighed by God Himself. It is not our perception of reality that matters. The truth of what is actually real is what we will be weighed and judged by.

This is how God is going to deal with scoffing mockers. This is how God is going to deal with those who are scoffing mockers but do not think that they are scoffing mockers. He will judge all of us in truth, not by outward appearance or by personal perception or by our self-justifications.

This is exactly what Jesus said in Matthew 7:21-23 about the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’

We must make sure that we do not judge our lives and situations by our own standards, but rather by God’s standards which He has given to us in His Word. In the worst-case scenario, judging our lives by our standards could have eternal consequences! All of this highlights our need to know, understand, and live by God’s wisdom. We need to know, understand, and live by God’s standard of righteousness, not ours. Given our utter failure to be able to do this, we are all desperately in need of God’s redemption, forgiveness, wisdom, and power. We desperately need Jesus to save us by His work on the cross. We desperately need His daily help and wisdom. Nothing else will do.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture we see a famous example of this proverb in 1 Samuel 16, when Samuel went to Jesse’s house to anoint the next king of Israel.

1 Samuel 16:6-7 When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’S anointed is before Him.” 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

God sees beyond outward appearance, obvious behaviors, and what we can see. He sees and weighs the heart. He knows who is putting on a façade. He knows who is truly humble enough to repent when they fail. He knows whose hearts are truly trusting Him and seeking to follow Him. He knows what secret idols people have hidden behind their words, outward demeanor, and even actions.

In Zechariah 7, we see another striking example of outward actions that did not accurately reflect people’s hearts. During the whole exile, the Jewish people had apparently been observing a fast during the fifth and seventh months of the year. Yet it was not really being done for the Lord. Notice God’s rebuke.

Zechariah 7:1-7 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. 2 Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD, 3 speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?” 4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted? 6 ‘When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves? 7 ‘Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

Externally, they were all very religious. By their fasting, they seemed to be mourning over their sin that had brought about the exile. Yet in reality, they were doing what they were doing for outward show, for themselves, or for other reasons that did not really include God. It was the same kind of hypocrisy and idolatry that had characterized the people before the exile. God saw their hearts and knew the truth. He was not fooled by their outward behaviors. So He rebuked them again for falling into the same sins as their ancestors.

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture, we see that an emphasis on God weighing our hearts is also found in 1 Samuel 2:2-4. These verses are in Hannah’s prayer of dedication as she delivered her young son Samuel to serve the Lord with the priests.

1 Samuel 2:2-4 “There is no one holy like the LORD, Indeed, there is no one besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God. 3 “Boast no more so very proudly, Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth; For the LORD is a God of knowledge, And with Him actions are weighed. 4 “The bows of the mighty are shattered, But the feeble gird on strength.

God not only weighs our actions and is a God of knowledge, but He also does something about it. He shatters the bows of the mighty and clothes the feeble with strength.

Hannah also highlights a very important response we should have to these truths. Because of God’s knowledge and weighing of our actions, we are to humble ourselves before Him. Boasting and pride should come to an end. Our words should not be arrogant. Our accountability to God with His accurate assessment of our actions, motives, and very heart should continually humble us. It should cause us to seek out His wisdom, guidance, and understanding in everything.

In the New Testament, we see a really bad example of not doing this alongside a very good example in Jesus’ parable from Luke 18:9-14.

Luke 18:9-14 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 “The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 “I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

To make sure that we get the point, Jesus lays it out quite plainly. We are not to trust in ourselves for righteousness. We are not to view others with contempt. Instead, we are all to see ourselves as sinners in need of God’s mercy. Our outward righteous behaviors are not enough. God sees right through them to our wicked motives. Likewise, they cannot hide the rest of our wicked behaviors or our wicked hearts. The only way to escape our dangerous, self-justifying way of life that leads to destruction is to straight-out acknowledge our sin. We need to humbly come to God as dirty sinners in need of His way of salvation in Jesus Christ. Only through His work on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin can we be shown mercy and forgiven. We cannot earn it ourselves. All of our hearts are sin-sick, black, wicked, and evil. They are coming under the judgment of God. He will weigh them, and we will be found guilty. Only through Jesus’ gift of righteousness can we be washed clean. We must come to God as sinners asking for His mercy. That is the only way that we will go to our house justified. Every other way will fail. God will see right through it, and true justice will be meted out.

But this truth about our ways being right in our own eyes is not just one that applies to us when we were unbelievers. Even as believers, we need to beware of the dangerous deceitfulness of our hearts. We need to honestly see ourselves and our hearts from God’s perspective. Paul speaks of the danger of our own self-examination in 1 Corinthians 4:1-5.¹

1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. 3 But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. 5 Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.

Even as an apostle, Paul regarded himself, and wanted to be regarded by others, as a servant of Christ. He saw himself not as some exalted personage, but rather as a steward of God who would be held accountable by Him. It was not to human judges that he would be held accountable. It was not even his own self-examination that would prove accurate or decisive. Even a clean conscience did not, could not, and would not acquit him of any sin or failure. He was going to be examined by the Lord. In one sense, that is freeing when we consider that it is not the approval or disapproval of other people that matters.

On the other hand, if we honestly see ourselves with the deceitfulness of our own hearts, this is also humbling and even terrifying. God is examining us. He sees through everything that we do. He sees all our right actions and our wrong actions. He sees our right motives, our mixed motives, our wrong motives, and our hidden faults. When we realize this, we see that we have nothing whatsoever to boast in. We see that we desperately need His help moment by moment to walk in righteousness. We desperately need His wisdom to expose our deceptions. We desperately need His guidance to know what is right and what is wrong. We desperately need His power and enablement to do the right thing for the right reasons. Without Him, we will fail every time.

Truth in Connection: As we connect this proverb to our lives, we see that it exalts God’s omniscience. It reminds us of our ultimate responsibility to Him. This proverb also humbles us and highlights our inclinations to self-deception and poor judgment. Through all that, it pushes us to see our utter, complete need for God’s wisdom, guidance, and help. Once we finally get to this point—whether as an unbeliever seeing our need for salvation in Jesus or as a believer seeing our need for God’s wisdom to guide us daily—then we will be ready to receive the wisdom that we will get in the proverbs given to us in the rest of the chapter.

Are you ready for God’s wisdom to take the place of your own judgments and way of life? Let us each turn to God for the wisdom of His Word to guide our lives. This is the only way that we escape from being a scoffing mocker under God’s judgment. Turn to Jesus for His salvation from sin and its destruction. Turn daily to Him for His wisdom in every area of life. Our sinful flesh will want to give excuses. Do not believe them! God sees through every one that we make. With His help, may we as well.

Before we move on to the next verse, there is another important issue to consider theologically from God’s perspective. The previous proverb (Proverbs 21:1) exalted God’s omnipotence and authority over hearts—even to directing the hearts of kings wherever He wished. This one (Proverbs 21:2) exalts God’s omniscience and judgment over hearts for their self-deceived wickedness. With all that, we could feel a bit whipsawed around. We learned that God can direct our steps and turn our hearts. Now we see that our hearts are corrupt and deceitful, and are going to be judged by Him. To put it another way, we see God’s sovereign intervention in people’s lives and hearts in the first verse. In the second verse we see God’s omniscience judging people’s deceived hearts. God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility for sin are seen side by side.

Nonetheless, from God’s perspective, there is no contradiction here. Both are set forward as fully true. We are expected to see them as fitting with each other. If we are going to be theologically accurate and honest about God and ourselves, we will accept both truths. We will be careful not to undermine any aspect of God’s sovereignty, omniscience, righteous judgment, or our responsibility for our sin.

Noticing what is also highlighted here may help us as we ponder these realities. Man’s deception, wrong perspectives, self-justification, and sin are prominent. The problem is that our hearts are all depraved and enslaved to sin as descendants of Adam. We are not necessarily as sinful as we possibly could be, but sin has thoroughly infested every part of us. That is why we are self-deceived. Apart from God’s gracious intervention, none of us will see and believe. None of us is good on our own. None of us is seeking God. Unless He did intervene to change our hearts, none of us would believe. Every intervention of God’s, then, is either a merciful act of regeneration or it is an act that furthers His good purposes in other ways without changing the reality of who we are, the evil that we desire, or the judgment that we deserve. Thus God is sovereign and good, while we remain responsible. He does not make us bad. We already are. But He does redirect and use us for His purposes in, and despite that sin.

Many more considerations could be added, but what is most important is that we be humbled by our natural inclination to self-deception and go to God for the redemption and daily wisdom that we need.

In the next verse Solomon begins giving us some of that wisdom that we need to protect us from the self-deceptions that will only lead to God’s ultimate judgment. Let’s look closely.

3 To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice.

God wants people to be truly living out righteousness rather than just making empty external sacrifices.

We need to remember that God sees our hearts. He does not want empty, external behaviors that are devoid of a corresponding reality in our hearts. Think about it from the perspective of a marriage or of a parent-child relationship. Who wants a marriage where the other person does everything they should, but they do it without any real love toward you or appreciation for you? It would be empty and ultimately disgusting and off-putting. A wife might make the meals, buy the groceries, keep the house clean, take care of the kids, and otherwise take care of her husband, but if it were all done in a perfunctory way, or out of duty, or with a resentful attitude, or with spiteful behavior, or for manipulative purposes, or to exalt herself, it is not going to mean much. The love will be absent and glaringly missing.

Likewise, a husband might work hard, provide for the family, cut the grass, fix the automobile, take everyone on vacation, and otherwise meet family needs, but if it were all done with a surly attitude, a grudging dutifulness, a complaining heart, a manipulative motive, an uncaring demeanor, or by transactional behaviors, then it is not going to mean much. The love will be absent and glaringly missing.

The same is true of parent-child relationships. If time spent together is made out to be a drudging chore, if concerns and problems are dealt with in a superficial way, if they are not listened to, valued, or appreciated, what will that all really matter? Likewise, if children obey only when parents are looking, or if only enough is done to give a lip service to obedience, or if no appreciation is given for the love and care shown, or if surly attitudes or back-talk accompany obedience, then what kind of love is that?

The same is true for God with us. He perfectly sees our hearts. He sees when we make our so-called sacrifices where we give a lip service, external obedience. He sees when we half-heartedly open His Word to read a few verses. He sees when we rattle off our rote, memorized prayers at meals. He sees when we prioritize sleep over coming to a service and then maybe distractedly watch the message online. He sees when we arrive on time to work and other places that we want to go, but arrive late to services. He sees when we make space to go out to eat, have our little delicacies, and pay for our hobbies while we then only give a token offering—if at all—to support our church or missionaries. He sees when we rush to do what we want to do with our time, while only having a brief moment to share the gospel or to help a fellow believer. When that is generally our relationship with God, do we really think He values it as real or as expressions of true love? Not at all. Each empty action is simply a reminder that our heart is not really His—just as it would be in any other relationship. God does not want that.

Instead of that, God wants true righteousness, justice, honesty, and faithfulness. He wants a true relationship that is backed up by the true realities of our lives. Proverbs 15:8 pictures both sides of this.

Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture we see an example of this in King Saul of Israel when he did not fully obey God’s commands and tried to justify his behavior. God did not approve. He judged his heart, motives, and actual actions. We see this in 1 Samuel 15:20-24.

1 Samuel 15:20-24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 “But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal.” 22 Samuel said, “Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 “For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king.” 24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice.

Partial obedience, lip service, and token sacrifices are not what God wants. They are not righteousness. God wants obedience. He wants wholehearted faithfulness. He wants a true love and a real devotion that are shown in righteousness and obedience.

In Isaiah 1, we see that this was the same problem that Judah had generations later. The empty actions without true love, obedience, and righteousness were an abominable stench to God.

Isaiah 1:11-20 “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts? 13 “Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. 14 “I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. 16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool. 19 “If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land; 20 “But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword.” Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken. (cf. also Micah 6:6-8, Hosea 6:4-7)

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this with the rest of Scripture, we see this same reality expressed by Jesus in the gospels. One of those occasions occurred when Jesus called Matthew to be His disciple in Matthew 9:9-13. The Pharisees were annoyed, and that provoked a confrontation.

Matthew 9:9-13 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him. 10 Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?” 12 But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. 13 “But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (cf. also Matthew 12:2-8, Mark 12:32-34)

Through this, the self-righteousness of the Pharisees, with all their external sacrifices and “works of righteousness,” was revealed to be worthless. They did not really love God and people. They were not really righteous. They were whitewashed tombs, as Jesus said elsewhere. That is not what God wants. He wants sinners who see their own wicked hearts to humbly come to Him for redemption and forgiveness. He wants His people to continue to love Him and others with the love that God has loved them with. This is the only way that we can do righteousness and justice.

On our own we cannot manufacture it. It will be an empty façade. We need God to change our hearts and to fill us with His love. Then, by His help, we need to continue to walk in that love so that we continue to live righteously from an honest heart.

Truth in Connection: As we connect this to our lives, we ought to ask ourselves whether our relationship with God is what God truly wants or whether it is a lip service sacrifice that we fool ourselves with. God is not fooled by it. He sees our hearts. He sees what we do at home. He sees what we do with our money and how much is actually given to His works. He sees how we treat His Word and prayer. He sees how we treat our families. He sees how we work or do our school. He sees how we make time to share the gospel and disciple new believers—or don’t. He sees our motives in our church involvements and relationships. He knows what we do out of duty or for the praise of others or to get something out of people. He is not impressed in the slightest with empty service or self-exaltation.

Whenever we find ourselves on the wrong side of that examination and in need of change, then we need to go back to remembering who God is and what He has done for us. We need to remember our sin and the judgment of God that was upon us for it. We need to remember Jesus’ great love on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin and to free us from our enslavement to it. We need to be humbled and overwhelmed with thankfulness and love for His undeserved mercy, grace, and love to us. Only when His river of living water of love is flowing into us will we be able to love Him and others rightly. Only then will our actions be done from a right heart and motive. Only then will our actions be truly righteous and just. Only then will they be what God desires. Get this right first. Do not settle for empty sacrifices.

Empty effort without true love ruins relationships. Do not do that to your marriage, to your family, or to God. Learn to love. Decide to love. Pursue love. Live out love in righteousness and truth.

If you have not trusted in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you do not yet know the love of God and can only live out these empty, self-righteous, self-exalting sacrifices. That cannot remove your sin. It cannot make you truly righteous. Turn from serving sin to trusting in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Only what He did on the cross can make us clean. Only what He did on the cross can change our hearts, free us from our slavery to sin, and enable us to truly love and serve righteously. Trust Him today.

Conclusion

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