Charles Ellicott Commentary Malachi 3:13

"Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?" — Malachi 3:13 (ASV)

Your words ... against me. —Better, your words put a constraint on me: namely, to prove myself to you to be “the God of judgment.”

Spoken. —Or rather, conversed together . They seem to have been in the habit of conversing together, and comparing the promises of God towards them with the state of affairs at that time. God had promised that they should be a proverb among the nations for blessedness; but, they say, seeing that things are as they are, “we [feel more inclined to] call the proud happy [or blessed]” (see further in the note on Malachi 3:15).