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Malachi 3:14

Context
NETBible

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 

XREF

Job 21:14,15; Job 22:17; Job 34:9; Job 35:3; Ps 73:8-13; Isa 58:3; Joe 2:12; Zep 1:12; Zec 7:3-6; Jas 4:9

NET © Notes

tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”

sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the Lord. The reason, of course, is that it was blatantly hypocritical.



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