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Malachi 3:14

NETBible	You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped¹ by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?²
NIV © biblegateway Mal 3:14	"You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty?
NASB © biblegateway Mal 3:14	"You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
NLT © biblegateway Mal 3:14	"You have said, ‘What’s the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?
MSG © biblegateway Mal 3:14	"When you said, 'It doesn't pay to serve God. What do we ever get out of it? When we did what he said and went around with long faces, serious about GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, what difference did it make?
BBE © SABDAweb Mal 3:14	You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
NRSV © bibleoremus Mal 3:14	You have said, "It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the LORD of hosts?
NKJV © biblegateway Mal 3:14	You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts?
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KJV	Ye have said <0559> (8804)_, It [is] vain <07723> to serve <05647> (8800) God <0430>_: and what profit <01215> [is it] that we have kept <08104> (8804) his ordinance <04931>_, and that we have walked <01980> (8804) mournfully <06941> before <06440> the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635>_? {ordinance: Heb. observation} {mournfully: Heb. in black}
NASB © biblegateway Mal 3:14	"You have said <0559> , 'It is vain <07723> to serve <05647> God <0430> ; and what <04100> profit <01215> is it that we have kept <08104> His charge <04931> , and that we have walked <01980> in mourning <06941> before <04480> <6440> the LORD <03068> of hosts <06635> ?
LXXM	eipate {V-AAI-2P} mataiov <3152> A-NSM o <3588> T-NSM douleuwn <1398> V-PAPNS yew <2316> N-DSM kai <2532> CONJ ti <5100> I-ASN pleon <4183> A-ASN oti <3754> CONJ efulaxamen <5442> V-AAI-1P ta <3588> T-APN fulagmata {N-APN} autou <846> D-GSM kai <2532> CONJ dioti <1360> CONJ eporeuyhmen <4198> V-API-1P iketai {N-NPM} pro <4253> PREP proswpou <4383> N-GSN kuriou <2962> N-GSM pantokratorov <3841> N-GSM
NET [draft] ITL	You have said <0559> , ‘It is useless <07723> to serve <05647> God <0430> . How <04100> have we been helped <01215> by keeping <08104> his requirements <04931> and going <01980> about like mourners <06941> before <06440> the Lord <03069> who rules over all <06635> ?
HEBREW	twabu <06635> hwhy <03069> ynpm <06440> tynrdq <06941> wnklh <01980> ykw <03588> wtrmsm <04931> wnrms <08104> yk <03588> eub <01215> hmw <04100> Myhla <0430> dbe <05647> aws <07723> Mtrma (3:14) <0559>

NETBible

You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped¹ by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?²

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”

²sn 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.