¹⁴ "When you said, 'It doesn't pay to serve God. What do we ever get out of it? When we did what he said and went around with long faces, serious about God-of-the-Angel-Armies, what difference did it make?

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, [1] and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

¹⁴ 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?