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13 You receive a lot of advice,
    and it has made you become tired.
Let your advisors come and stand there.
They study the sky and the stars to decide what will happen.
    They say what will happen each month.
So let them come and help you!
    See if they can rescue you from the trouble that is coming!
14 But they are as useless as straw
    that quickly burns in a fire.
They cannot save themselves,
    because the fire is too hot!
This is not a nice fire to sit beside and enjoy the heat.
15 You have worked with those magicians since you were young,
    but you will have no help from them now.
They have gone their own separate ways.
    There is nobody left who can save you.’

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13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!(A)
    Let your astrologers(B) come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
    let them save(C) you from what is coming upon you.
14 Surely they are like stubble;(D)
    the fire(E) will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
    from the power of the flame.(F)
These are not coals for warmth;
    this is not a fire to sit by.
15 That is all they are to you—
    these you have dealt with
    and labored(G) with since childhood.
All of them go on in their error;
    there is not one that can save(H) you.

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