You have known this of old, since man was placed on earth,
The heavens are the heavens of יהוה ; But He has given the earth to the children of men.
I said, ‘Days should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.’
Both the grey-haired and the aged are among us, much older than your father.
And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”
which the wise declare, and have not hidden from their fathers,
