Jeremiah 17:9-11

International Children’s Bible

⁹ “More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil.
    It cannot be healed.
    Who can understand it?
¹⁰ But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart.
    I can test a person’s mind.
So I can decide what each one deserves.
    I can give each one the right payment for what he does.”

¹¹ Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay.
    That bird is like the man who gets rich by cheating.
When that man’s life is half finished, he will lose his riches.
    At the end of his life, it will be clear he was a fool.