So take your stand with your spells and your many sorceries, which you have wearied yourself with from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
You are worn out with your many consultations. So let them stand and save you— the astrologers,(a) who observe the stars,(A) who predict monthly what will happen to you.
Look, they are like stubble;(B) fire burns them up.(C) They cannot deliver themselves from the power(b) of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!