Endnote 6 – Can God Read Minds?

Moshe Garsiel (“Parallels Between the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Psalms” [Ph.D. diss., Tel Aviv Univ., 1973], vol. 1, p. 171) noted both the uniqueness and the probable source of the expression, but in a different investigative context. The general, but not unanimous, consensus is that Jeremiah 20:12 is secondary to its context.