I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord – so how can anyone understand his own way?

because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors –

However, a poor but wise man lived in the city, and he could have delivered the city by his wisdom, but no one listened to that poor man.

I made the earth, I created the people who live on it. It was me – my hands stretched out the sky, I give orders to all the heavenly lights.

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.