Jeremiah 17:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ “The heart is more deceitful than anything.
    It is incurable—
        who can know it?
¹⁰ I am the Lord who searches the heart,
    who tests the inner depths
to give to each person
    according to what he deserves,^[a]
        according to the fruit of his deeds.
¹¹ As a partridge gathers together eggs
    that it didn’t lay,
so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly.
    In the middle of his life^[b] it will leave him,
        and in the end he will prove to be a fool.”