Osea 2:8

Poiché non sapeva che le davo grano, vino e olio e le moltiplicavo argento e oro, che avevano preparato per Baal. Perché lei non sapeva che le ho dato il grano - Quante volte i doni della grazia immediata di Dio sono attribuiti a cause fortuite - a qualsiasi causa tranne quella giusta!

Which they prepared for Baal - And how often are the gifts of God's bounty perverted into means of dishonoring him! God gives us wisdom, strength, and property; and we use them to sin against him with the greater skill, power, and effect! Were the goods those of the enemy, in whose service they are employed, the crime would be the less. But the crime is deeply engrained, when God's property is made the instrument to dishonor himself.