Malachi 3:13-18 - The Righteous And The Wicked
13 Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh, - and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee?
14 Ye have said, Vain is it to serve God, - and, What profit when we have kept his charge, or when we have walked gloomily before Yahweh of hosts? 15 Now, therefore, we are pronouncing happy - the proud, - and, the doers of lawlessness have, even been built up, and, they who have put God to the proof, have even been delivered.
16 Then, they who revered Yahweh, conversed, one with another, - and Yahweh hearkened, and heard, and there was written a book of remembrance before him, for them who revered Yahweh, and for such as thought of his Name. 17 Therefore shall they be mine, saith Yahweh of hosts, in the day for which, I, am preparing treasure, - and I will deal tenderly with them, just as a man, dealeth tenderly, with his own son who is serving him. 18 So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless, - between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.