Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,
The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah; But the earth hath he given to the children of men.
I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;