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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.
15 That’s what will happen to those you have worked with,
    the people you did business with all your life.
They will all go their own way.
    There will be no one left to 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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