Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 3:13

13 ¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD: yet ye say , What have we spoken so much against thee?

Your discourses concerning my Providences over you and others, your reasonings, censures, and verdicts, passed on your own wayes, and on the wayes of your God.

Proudly justifying your selves as deserving better usage from God, or insolently arraigning God for his kindness to others, who in your Judgment are worse than your selves, by such words as those chap. 2.17.

You think you have spoken nothing so proudly and stoutly, and challenge me to tell you wherein, or with what words you have shew'd such insolence.

Marginal references: Job 21.14, 15.