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12 “Keep on using your tricks.
    Continue doing all your magic.
    You have done these things since you were young.
Maybe they will help you.
    Maybe you will be able to scare someone.
13 You are tired of the advice you have received.
    So let those who study the sky come.
They tell the future by looking at the stars.
    So let them save you from what is about to happen to you.
14 But they are like straw.
    Fire will quickly burn them up.
They cannot save themselves
    from the power of the fire.
They are not like coals that give warmth.
    They are not like a fire you may sit beside.

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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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