Jeremiah 17:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ The heart is more deceitful than all things
    and desperately wicked;
    who can understand it?

¹⁰ I, the Lord, search the heart,
    I test the mind,
even to give to every man according to his ways,
    and according to the fruit of his deeds.

¹¹ As the partridge sits on eggs which it has not laid,
    so is he who gets riches, but not justly;
it will forsake him in the midst of his days,
    and in the end he will be a fool.