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 He catches the wise^(A) in their craftiness,^(B)
    and the schemes of the wily are swept away.^(C)
14 Darkness^(D) comes upon them in the daytime;
    at noon they grope as in the night.^(E)
15 He saves the needy^(F) from the sword in their mouth;
    he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.^(G)