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14 See, they are like stubble;
    the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
    from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
    no fire to sit before!(A)

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Can one drive off a hungry lion in the forest or quench a fire in the stubble once it has started to burn?[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16.6 Other ancient authorities read fire when dry straw has been set on fire