Jeremiah 17:9-11

Expanded Bible

⁹ “·More than anything else [^TAbove all things], ·a person’s mind is evil [^Tthe heart is deceitful; ^Lthe heart is devious/crooked]
    and ·cannot be healed [^Tdesperately wicked; ^Lit is perverse/sick].
    Who can ·understand [know] it?
¹⁰ But I, the Lord, ·look into a person’s [investigate/test the] heart
    and test the ·mind [^Lkidneys].
·So I can decide what each one deserves [^L…to give to each according to his way/path];
    I can give each one the right payment for what he does.”

¹¹ Like a ·bird [^Lpartridge] hatching an egg it did not lay,
    so are the people who get rich ·by cheating [unjustly].
When their ·lives [^Ldays] are half finished, ·they will lose their riches [^Lit will leave/abandon them].
    At the end of their lives, it will be clear they were fools.