“(Verse 13) Your words have become burdensome to me, says the Lord, and you have said: What have we spoken against you? LXX: You have wearied me with your words, says the Lord. And you said, 'In what way have we spoken against you?' In that, when you were saying: Whoever does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Malachi
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13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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In context
11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
— Malachi 3:13 —
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.