Text -- Malachi 3:14 (NET)

3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mal 3:14

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 Lord. The reason, of course, is that it was blatantly hypocritical.