Jeremiah 17:9-11
World English Bible
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and it is exceedingly corrupt.
Who can know it?
10 “I, Yahweh, search the mind.
I try the heart,
even to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his doings.”
11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid,
so is he who gets riches, and not by right.
In the middle of his days, they will leave him.
At his end, he will be a fool.
Jeremiah 17:9-11
English Standard Version
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
(B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
11 Like the (D)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is (E)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(F)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
(G)and at his end he will be a fool.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys
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