Malachi 3:13-18 - The Righteous And The Wicked

¹³ Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee?

¹⁴ Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? ¹⁵ And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

¹⁶ Then they fearing Jehovah spake each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will attend and will hear, and write a book of remembrance before him for those fearing Jehovah, and for thinking upon his name. ¹⁷ And they were to me, said Jehovah of armies, for the day which I make wealth; and I spared for them as a man will spare for the son serving him. ¹⁸ And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not