Jeremiah 17:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ The heart is more deceitful than any other thing,
    and it is also perverse.
    Who can uncover its secrets?
¹⁰ I, the Lord, search the heart
    and probe the mind
to reward all according to their conduct
    and as their deeds deserve.
¹¹ Like a partridge^[a] hatching eggs that it has not laid,
    so is the man who amasses riches unjustly.
When his life is half completed,
    they will desert him;
and when his life is at an end,
    he will prove to have been a fool.