5 Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man who trusts in manAnd makes flesh his strength,Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,And shall not see when good comes,But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,And whose hope is the Lord.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,Which spreads out its roots by the river,And will not fear when heat comes;But its leaf will be green,And will not be anxious in the year of drought,Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9 “The heart is deceitful above all things,And desperately wicked;Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, search the heart,I test the mind,Even to give every man according to his ways,According to the fruit of his doings.
11 “As a partridge that broods but does not hatch,So is he who gets riches, but not by right;It will leave him in the midst of his days,And at his end he will be a fool.”