Job 20:4
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4 Do you not know this from of old,
ever since mortals were placed on earth,(A)
Psalm 115:16
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16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to human beings.(A)
Job 32:7
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7 I said, ‘Let days speak
and many years teach wisdom.’
Job 15:10
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10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,
those older than your father.(A)
Job 8:8-9
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8 “For inquire now of bygone generations
and consider what their ancestors have found,(A)
9 for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
for our days on earth are but a shadow.(B)
Genesis 9:1-3
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The Covenant with Noah
9 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.(A) 2 The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.(B)
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Genesis 1:28
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28 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.”(A)
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