Malachi 3:13-15

International Standard Version

God’s Seventh Complaint: Against His People—Slandering God

¹³ “You have spoken arrogant words against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What did we say against you?’ ¹⁴ You said, ‘It is futile to serve God,’ and, ‘What did we get out of it^[a] when we carried out his requirements and went about like mourners in the presence of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies?’ ¹⁵ and, ‘Now we call the arrogant one blessed. Those who do evil prosper and those who challenge God escape the consequences.’”^[b]