TSK · Malachi 3:14

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

"Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"