Maleakhi 3:14

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Bahwa katamu: Cuma-cuma juga berbuat ibadat kepada Allah! Dan apakah faedahnya kami melakukan pengawalannya dan kami berpakaikan kain perkabungan di hadapan hadirat Tuhan serwa sekalian alam!

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Kamu berkata: "Adalah sia-sia beribadah kepada Allah. Apakah untungnya kita memelihara apa yang harus dilakukan terhadap-Nya dan berjalan dengan pakaian berkabung di hadapan TUHAN semesta alam?

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Kamu berkata: "Adalah sia-sia beribadah kepada Allah. Apakah untungnya kita memelihara apa yang harus dilakukan terhadap-Nya dan berjalan dengan pakaian berkabung di hadapan TUHAN semesta alam?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

It is: Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Job 22:17, Job 34:9, Job 35:3, Psalms 73:8-13, Isaiah 58:3, Zephaniah 1:12

ordinance: Heb. observation

and that: Isaiah 58:3, Joel 2:12, Zechariah 7:3-6, James 4:9

mournfully: Heb. in black

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:32 - and what Exodus 5:9 - vain words Numbers 11:11 - Wherefore hast thou Job 1:11 - and he will curse thee Job 2:9 - retain Psalms 58:11 - Verily there is Psalms 73:13 - Verily Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast been Isaiah 45:19 - Seek Ezekiel 11:5 - Thus have Malachi 1:2 - Wherein Malachi 1:6 - And ye Malachi 3:18 - shall Matthew 6:16 - be Matthew 15:9 - in Matthew 20:12 - borne Matthew 25:24 - I knew Mark 7:7 - in vain Mark 8:36 - profit Luke 15:29 - yet Luke 19:21 - because Romans 3:1 - advantage 1 Corinthians 15:32 - what James 1:26 - this

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye have said, it [is] vain to serve God,.... This they said in their hearts, if not with their lips, that it was a vain thing for a man to serve God; he got nothing by it; he had no reward for it; it fared no better with him than the wicked; nay, the wicked fared better than he; and therefore who would be a worshipper of God? see

Job 21:15. Abarbinel understands this also with respect to God, who is worshipped; to whom worship, say these men, is no ways profitable, nor does he regard it; see Job 35:7 and therefore it is in vain to serve him, since neither he, nor we, are the better for it:

and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance; or "his observation" n; that is, have observed that which he commanded to be observed; this respects not any single and particular ordinance, but every ordinance of God: the Sadducees of those times seem designed, who denied the resurrection of the dead, and a future state of rewards and punishments, and so might well conclude it in vain to serve God:

and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? or "in black" o; which is the habit of mourners; see Psalms 38:6 with an humble spirit, as Jarchi interprets it; or with humiliation (or contrition) of spirit, as the Targum, which paraphrases the whole verse thus,

"ye have said, he gains nothing who worships before the Lord; and what mammon (or riches) do we gain because we have kept the observation of his word, and because we have walked in contrition of spirit before the Lord of hosts?''

Aben Ezra and Abarbinel seem to understand this last clause of their being afflicted and suffering for the sake of religion, and which they endured in vain, seeing they were not respected and rewarded for it; but the other sense is best, which represents them as sincere penitents, and humble worshippers of God in their own account, and yet were not taken notice of by him: it seems to describe the Pharisees, who disfigured their faces, and affected down looks and sorrowful countenances p.

n משמרתו "observationem ejus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius "observantiam ejus", Cocceius. o קדרנית "atrate", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Stockius, p. 926; "pullati", Tigurine version; "atrati", Cocceius. p The word is used by Josephus ben Gorion for sincere walking, l. 6. c. 20. p. 612. Vid. Not. Breithaupt. in ib.; it is interpreted "humbly" by R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 102. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have said, It is vain to serve the God - ^o “as receiving no gain or reward for their service. This is the judgment of the world, whereby worldlings think pious, just, sincere, strict men, vain, i. e., especially when they see them impoverished, despised, oppressed, afflicted, because they know not the true goods of virtue and eternal glory, but measure all things by sight, sense and taste. Truly, if the righteous had not hope of another and better life, in vain would they afflict themselves, and bear the afflictions of others. For, as the Apostle says 1 Corinthians 15:19. ‘If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.’ But now, hoping for another blessed and eternal life for the slight tribulations of this, we are the happiest of all men.”

And we have walked mournfully - ^o Again they take in their mouths the words of Psalmists, that they took the garb of mourners, going about mourning before God for their country’s afflictions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 3:14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God — They strove to destroy the Divine worship; they asserted that it was vanity; that, if they performed acts of worship, they should be nothing the better; and if they abstained, they should be nothing the worse. This was their teaching to the people.

Walked mournfully — Even repentance they have declared to be useless. This was a high pitch of ungodliness; but see what follows; behold the general conclusions of these reprobates-