Jeremiah 17:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ “Who can understand the human heart?
    There is nothing else so deceitful;
    it is too sick to be healed.
^10 (A)I, the Lord, search the minds
    and test the hearts of people.
I treat each of them according to the way they live,
    according to what they do.”

¹¹ The person who gets money dishonestly
    is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn't lay.
In the prime of life he will lose his riches,
    and in the end he is nothing but a fool.