won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
⛓ Read Psalm 44 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
2:16 judging 'the secrets of men' echoes Ps 44:21 (LXX 43:22), 'would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart' — divine knowledge of hidden things grounding the verdict.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'God knows the secrets of the heart' supplies the same conviction behind 14:25—the disclosure of hidden things by divine knowledge. Volume is low and the link general, but it reinforces the OT availability of the searched-heart theme alongside 1 Samuel 16:7 and Psalm 139.
Low confidence