so are those who acquire their wealth corruptly - I've decided to keep the sermons on these texts shorter than they've been

 The most cunning heart—
    it’s beyond help.
        Who can figure it out?

I, the Lord, probe the heart
    and discern hidden motives,
        to give everyone what they deserve,
        the consequences of their deeds.


Like a partridge gathering a brood that is not its own,
    so are those who acquire their wealth corruptly.
        By midlife it will be gone;
        afterward they will look like fools.

Jeremiah 17:9-11 

I don't believe I've ever heard a right-wing Bible thumper who seemed to believe God meant what is said in this passage.  But, you know as well as I do, that they'd fall back on the civil law in  the United States that is dedicated to making the corrupt acquisition of wealth legal.   I'm sure that's what that corrupt whited sepulcher Mike Johnson would fall back on, 

I am finding that Jeremiah, when you make the necessary substitutions to apply it to American life today, is fresher than what you'll find in today's news.  If there's one thing you know Jeremiah was not, it was a self-serving ass-covering coward which is what most lawyers and most "journalists" seem to be.