Do you not know this from of old, ever since mortals were placed on earth,
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.
what sages have told and their ancestors have not hidden,
I said, ‘Let days speak and many years teach wisdom.’
The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.