Deuteronomy 4:6-8

and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation. ‘For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as JEHOVAH our God, in all we have called unto him? and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?