Malachi 3:14
And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.
Cross References
Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
Job 34:9For he hath said : Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
Psalms 73:8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.
Joel 2:12Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.
Zechariah 7:3To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?
Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18
Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then… Read the whole commentary →