Malachi 3:13-16 You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You?

CAB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You? ¹⁴ You said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept His ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty? ¹⁵ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered. ¹⁶ Thus they spoke, those that feared the Lord, everyone to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and He wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced His name.