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Malachi 3:15 KJV
Malachi · chapter 3 · verse 15
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.Malachi 3:15 · King James Version
Malachi 3:15 in context
13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessrishʻâhwrongH7564 →
- proudzêdarrogantH2086 →
- temptbâchanto testH974 →
- callʼâsharto be straightH833 →
- workʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah's figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18