Jeremiah 17:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ The heart is devious above all else;
    it is perverse—
    who can understand it?
¹⁰ I the Lord test the mind
    and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
    according to the fruit of their doings.

¹¹ Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
    so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in mid-life it will leave them,
    and at their end they will prove to be fools.