Ye 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?
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Gill's Exposition
Ye have said, it is vain to serve God,.... This they said in their hearts, if not with their lips, that it was a vain thing for a man to serve God; he got nothing by it; he had no reward for it; it…
Barnes' Notes
Ye have said, It is vain to serve the God - o “as receiving no gain or reward for their service. This is the judgment of the world, whereby worldlings think pious, just, sincere, strict men, vain, i.…
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
kept his ordinance lit. observed his observance. Kept his charge, R.V.
It is the same tendency to regard mere outward observance as true religion, which earlier prophets had denounced (1Sa 15:22; Isa…
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