Jeremiah 17:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ The most cunning heart—
    it’s beyond help.
        Who can figure it out?
¹⁰ I, the Lord, probe the heart
    and discern hidden motives,
        to give everyone what they deserve,
        the consequences of their deeds.

¹¹ Like a partridge gathering a brood that is not its own,
    so are those who acquire their wealth corruptly.
        By midlife it will be gone;
        afterward they will look like fools.