Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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Gill's Exposition
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord,.... Hard and strong; they bore very hardly upon him, were exceeding impudent and insolent; murmuring at his providence; arraigning his justice…
Barnes' Notes
Your words have been stout against Me - , probably “oppressive to Me,” as it is said, the famine was strong upon the land. And ye have said, “What have we spoken among ourselves against Thee?” Again,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Mal 3:13 to Mal 4:3 The righteous judgment of God
13. have been stout See Mal 2:17. Comp. Job 21:14-15; Judges 15.
so much Omit so muchhere, and often, Mal 3:3. The force of the Hebrew conjugation is…
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