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12 “So keep on casting your magic spells.
    Keep on practicing your evil magic.
    You have been doing those things ever since you were a child.
Perhaps they will help you.
    Maybe they will scare your enemies away.
13 All the advice you have received
    has only worn you out!
    Let those who study the heavens come forward.
They claim to know what is going to happen
    by watching the stars every month.
So let them save you from the trouble
    that is coming on you.
14 They are just like straw.
    Fire will burn them up.
They can’t even save themselves
    from the powerful flames.
These are not like coals that can warm anyone.
    This is not like a fire 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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