And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Ver. 18. God hath given me my hire.] Wherein she was much mistaken, as having not her "senses exercised to discern good and evil." Here she rejoiceth in that for which she should have repented; and was in the common error of measuring and judging of things by the success; a as if God were not many times angry with men, though they outwardly prosper. Thus Dionysius, after the spoils of an idol temple, finding the winds favourable, Lo, said he, how the gods approve of sacrilege!
a Foelix scelus virtus vocatur. - Cicero, De Divin ., lib. ii.