Jeremiah 17:9-11

New American Standard Bible

⁹ “The ^(A)heart is more ^(B)deceitful than all else
And is desperately ^(C)sick;
Who can understand it?
¹⁰ I, the Lord, ^(D)search the heart,
I test the ^[a]mind,
^(E)To give to each person according to his ways,
According to the ^[b]results of his deeds.
¹¹ As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is a person who ^(F)makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the middle of his days it will abandon him,
And in ^[c]the end he will be a ^(G)fool.”