8. Therefore, now hear this, you who are given to pleasures,who dwell carelessly,who say in your heart,“I am, and there is no one besides me;I shall not sit as a widow,nor shall I know the loss of children”;
9. but these two things shall come to youin a moment, in one day,the loss of children and widowhood.They shall come upon you in their fullnessbecause of the multitude of your sorceriesand for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10. For you have trusted in your wickedness;you have said, “No one sees me”;your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you;and you have said in your heart,“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
11. Therefore, evil shall come upon you,which you shall not know from where it rises.And disaster shall fall upon you,for which you shall not be able to atone.And desolation shall come upon you suddenly,which you shall not know.
12. Stand fast now with your enchantments,and with the multitude of your sorceriesin which you have labored from your youth.Perhaps you shall be able to profit,perhaps you may cause trembling.
13. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;let now the astrologers, the stargazers,the monthly prognosticators stand upand save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14. Surely they shall be as stubble,the fire shall burn them;they shall not deliver themselvesfrom the power of the flame;it shall not be coal to be warmed bynor a fire to sit before.
15. Thus those shall be to youwith whom you have labored,even your merchants, from your youth;they shall wander, everyone to his quarter.No one shall save you.