“Like the partridge hatching
What it did not lay,
So are all
Who amass wealth unjustly.
In midlife,
It will not leave them.
At their end,
They will prove to be fools.”
Jeremiah has this neat little proverb about a partridge hatching an egg that it did not lay. This was compared to rich people who get their wealth unjustly. They will keep their wealth through midlife. However, at the end of their lives, they will prove themselves to be fools.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 