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In one day both of these will happen to you instantly:
    the loss of your children and your husband.
    All this will happen to you in spite of
    your evil magic and your many spells.
10 You feel safe in your wickedness
    and say, “No one can see me.”
    Your wisdom and knowledge have led you astray,
    so you say to yourself,
        “I’m the only one, and there’s no one else.”
11 But evil will happen to you.
    You won’t know how to keep it away.
    Disaster will strike you.
    You won’t be able to stop it.
    Destruction will overtake you suddenly.
    You won’t expect it.

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Both of these will overtake you
    in a moment,(A) on a single day:
    loss of children(B) and widowhood.(C)
They will come upon you in full measure,
    in spite of your many sorceries(D)
    and all your potent spells.(E)
10 You have trusted(F) in your wickedness
    and have said, ‘No one sees me.’(G)
Your wisdom(H) and knowledge mislead(I) you
    when you say to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
11 Disaster(J) will come upon you,
    and you will not know how to conjure it away.
A calamity will fall upon you
    that you cannot ward off with a ransom;
a catastrophe you cannot foresee
    will suddenly(K) come upon you.

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