Malachi Chapter 3 verse 13 Holy Bible
Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
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Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?
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Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
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Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
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Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-18. - § 3. The impious murmuring of the people is contrasted with the conduct of those who fear God; and the reward of the pious is set forth. Verse 13. - Your words have been stout against me. Ye have spoken hard words of me (comp. Jude 1:15, where we read of "the hard speeches (σκληρῶν) which ungodly sinners have spoken against" God). Some specimens of these speeches are given in answer to the usual sceptical inquiry. They are of the same character as those in Malachi 2:17, and imply that the course of this world is not directed by a moral Governor. What have we spoken so much (together) against thee! What have we said against thee in our conversations with one another?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Your words . . . against me.--Better, your words put a constraint on me: viz., to prove myself to you to be "the God of judgment."Spoken.--Or rather, conversed together. (Comp. Malachi 3:16.) They seem to have been in the habit of conversing together, and comparing the promises of God towards them with the then state of affairs. God had promised that they should be a proverb among the nations for blessedness; but, say they, seeing that things are as they are, "we [feel more inclined to] call the proud happy [or blessed]." (See further in Note on Malachi 3:15.)
