This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
And God blessed them, and he said, "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
There are with us both aged and ancient men, even more senior than your fathers.
The wise acknowledge, and they do not leave behind, their fathers,
For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.