“I will condemn those

who turn away from me

and put their trust in human beings,

in the strength of mortals.

₆They are like bushes in the desert,

which grow in the dry wilderness,

on salty ground where nothing else grows.

Nothing good ever happens to them.

₇“But I will bless those

who put their trust in me.

₈They are like trees growing near a stream

and sending out roots to the water.

They are not afraid when hot weather comes,

because their leaves stay green;

they have no worries when there is no rain;

they keep on bearing fruit.

₉“Who can understand the human heart?

There is nothing else so deceitful;

it is too sick to be healed.

₁₀I, the LORD, search human minds

and test human hearts.

I treat each one according to the way he lives,

according to what he does.”