Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];
Ver. 47. For the abundance all things.] Aristotle was wont to tax his Athenians, Quod cum duas res invenissent, frumenta ac leges, frumentis ut erentur, legibus nequaquam; imo moribus suis quam legibus uti mallent, as Valerius Maximus addeth, a Sure it is, that as these Jews of old, so we to this day are much to be blamed, for that we live in God's good land, but not by God's good laws.
a Laert., lib. v. cap. 1.