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12 You worked hard all your life
    learning magic and spells.
So start using that magic.
    Maybe those spells will help you.
    Maybe you will be able to frighten someone.
13 You have many advisors.
    Are you tired of the advice they give?
Then send out your men who read the stars.
    They can tell when the month starts,
    so maybe they can tell you when your troubles will come.
14 But they cannot even save themselves.
    They will burn like straw.
They will burn so fast that there will be no coals left to cook bread.
    There will be no fire left to sit by.

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12 “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,(A)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.
13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!(B)
    Let your astrologers(C) come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
    let them save(D) you from what is coming upon you.
14 Surely they are like stubble;(E)
    the fire(F) will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
    from the power of the flame.(G)
These are not coals for warmth;
    this is not a fire to sit by.

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