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"Your words have been arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?'

Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

"You have said, 'It is pointless to serve God; and what benefit is it for us that we have done what He required, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of armies?

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?

'So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also put God to the test and escape punishment.'"

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.