Parallel MAL 3:14

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BSB You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

OEB You have said, “It is useless to serve God, and what do we gain from the Lord of hosts by keeping his commands, and walking mournfully in funeral garb before him?

WEB You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

WMB You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

NET You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

LSV You have said, A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black,
Because of YHWH of Hosts?

FBV You have said, “What's the point of serving God? What benefit is there in keeping his commandments or going before the Lord Almighty with long faces?

T4T I reply, “You have said, ‘It is useless for us to serve God. We have gained nothing [RHQ] by obeying the commands that he gave to us and by trying to show the Commander of the armies of angels that we are sorry for the sins that we have committed.

LEB You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God! Whatis the gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mournersbefore Yahweh of hosts?

BBE You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

MOF No MOF MAL book available

JPS Ye have said: 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?

ASV Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

DRA And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

YLT Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

DBY Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

RV Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

WBS Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

KJB 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?
  (Ye/You_all 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?)

BB Ye haue saide: it is but vayne to serue God, and what profite is it that we haue kept his commaundement, & that we haue walked humbly before the face of the Lorde of hoastes?
  (Ye/You_all have said: it is but vayne to serve God, and what profite is it that we have kept his commandment, and that we have walked humbly before the face of the Lord of hoastes?)

GNV Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?
  (Ye/You_all have said, It is in vaine to serve God: and what profite is it that we have kept his commandment, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?)

CB Ye haue sayed: It is but lost laboure, to serue God: What profit haue we for kepynge his commaundementes, and for walkinge humbly before the LORDE off hoostes?
  (Ye/You_all have sayed: It is but lost laboure, to serve God: What profit have we for kepynge his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD off hoostes?)

WYC And ye seiden, He is veyn, that serueth God; and what wynnyng for we kepten hise heestis, and for we wenten sorewful bifore the Lord of oostis?
  (And ye/you_all said, He is veyn, that serueth God; and what wynnyng for we kepten his heestis, and for we went sorewful before the Lord of oostis?)

LUT Damit, daß ihr saget: Es ist umsonst, daß man GOtt dienet, und: Was nützt es, daß wir sein Gebot halten und hart Leben vor dem HErrn Zebaoth führen?
  (Damit, that her saget: It is umsonst, that man God dienet, und: What nützt es, that wir his Gebot hold and hart life before/in_front_of to_him HErrn Zebaoth führen?)

CLV Et dixistis: Quid locuti sumus contra te? Dixistis: Vanus est qui servit Deo: et quod emolumentum quia custodivimus præcepta ejus, et quia ambulavimus tristes coram Domino exercituum?
  (And dixistis: Quid locuti sumus contra te? Dixistis: Vanus it_is who servit Deo: and that emolumentum because custodivimus præcepta eyus, and because ambulavimus tristes coram Domino exercituum?)

BRN Ye said, He that serves God labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

BrLXX Εἴπατε, μάταιος ὁ δουλεύων Θεῷ, καὶ τί πλέον, ὅτι ἐφυλάξαμεν τὰ φυλάγματα αὐτοῦ, καὶ διότι ἐπορεύθημεν ἱκέται πρὸ προσώπου Κυρίου παντοκράτορος;
  (Eipate, mataios ho douleuōn Theōi, kai ti pleon, hoti efulaxamen ta fulagmata autou, kai dioti eporeuthaʸmen hiketai pro prosōpou Kuriou pantokratoros?)