Jeremiah 17:9-11

Lexham English Bible

⁹ The heart is deceitful more than anything else,
    and it is disastrous. Who can understand it?
¹⁰ I, Yahweh, examine the mind,^[a]
    I test the heart,^[b]
and give to each one according to his way,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.
¹¹ Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    is one who amasses wealth without justice.
In the middle of his days it will leave him,
    and at his end he will prove to be a fool.”