Jeremiah 17:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ “Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind.
    It can be very sick,
    and no one really understands it.
¹⁰ But I am the Lord,
    and I can look into a person’s heart.
I can test a person’s mind and decide what each one should have.
    I can give each person the right payment for what they do.
¹¹ Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay.
    Those who cheat to get money are like that bird.
But when their lives are half finished, they will lose the money.
    At the end of their lives, it will be clear that they were fools.”