Jeremiah 17:11
King James Version
Translation: KJV
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?Select Jeremiah 17:9
10I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.Select Jeremiah 17:10
11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.Select Jeremiah 17:11
12A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.Select Jeremiah 17:12
13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.Select Jeremiah 17:13
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WEB
17:11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
ASV
17:11 As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
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