Jeremiah 17:9-11

Revised Standard Version

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately corrupt;
    who can understand it?
¹⁰ “I the Lord search the mind
    and try the heart,
to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his doings.”

¹¹ Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch,
    so is he who gets riches but not by right;
in the midst of his days they will leave him,
    and at his end he will be a fool.