Malachi 3:14
Ye have said: Avod Elohim is vain; 1 and what profit is it that we have been shomer over His mishmeret, 1 and that we have walked as mourners 1 before Hashem Tzva'os? 1
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Job 21:15What is Shaddai, that we should serve Him? 1 And what profit should we have, if we importune Him? 1
Job 34:9For he hath said, 1 It profiteth a gever nothing that he should please Elohim. 1
Psalms 73:8They mock, and speak wickedly concerning oshek (oppression); 1 they speak from marom (on high). 1
Isaiah 58:3Why have we done a tzom, say they, and Thou seest not? 1 Why have we afflicted nafsheinu, and Thou takest no notice? 1 See, in your yom tzom ye find chefetz (pleasure, personal advantage) 1 and exploit all your toilers. 1
Joel 2:12Therefore also now, saith Hashem, 1 turn ye back to Me with all your lev, 1 and with tzom, and with weeping, and with mourning; 1
Zechariah 7:3And to speak unto the kohanim which were in the Beis Hashem Tzva'os, and to the nevi'im, saying, Should I mourn in the fifth month, hinnazer (separating myself by fasting), as I have done these so many shanim?
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 →