Jeremiah 17:11
“As the partrich sitteth on egges, and hatcheth them not: so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leaue them in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be a foole.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
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Jeremiah 17:11 Context
9¶ The heart is deceitfull aboue all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? 10I the Lord search the heart, I try the reines, euen to giue euery man according to his waies, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11As the partrich sitteth on egges, and hatcheth them not: so he that getteth riches and not by right, shall leaue them in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be a foole. 12¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning, is the place of our Sanctuarie. 13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall bee written in the earth, because they haue forsaken the Lord the fountaine of liuing waters.
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[As] 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.
- King James Version
"As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, {So} is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool."
- New American Standard Version (1995)