Discovery BoxMalachi 3:14 
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 1 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 2
Malachi 3:16
Context3:16 Then those who respected 3 the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. 4 A scroll 5 was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.
1 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
2 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the
3 tn Or “fear” (so NAB); NRSV “revered”; NCV “honored.”
4 tn Heb “heard and listened”; NAB “listened attentively.”
5 sn The scroll mentioned here is a “memory book” (סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן, sefer zikkaron) in which the
