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Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world and that which holds all things together knows what is said,
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For he created all things so that they might exist; the generative forces of the world are wholesome, and there is no destructive poison in them, and the dominion of Hades is not on earth.
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The multitude of the wise is the salvation of the world, and a sensible king is the stability of any people.
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For it is he who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements,
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and rule the world in holiness and righteousness and pronounce judgment in uprightness of soul,
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The Work of Wisdom
Wisdom protected the first-formed father of the world, when he alone had been created; she delivered him from his transgression
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For your all-powerful hand, which created the world out of formless matter, did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears or bold lions
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Because the whole world before you is like a speck that tips the scales and like a drop of morning dew that falls on the ground.
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but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air or the circle of the stars or turbulent water or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that rule the world.
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for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they not more quickly find the Lord of these things?
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For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and guided by your hand left to the world the seed of a new generation.
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For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, those who had kept your children imprisoned, through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.
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For on his long robe the whole world was depicted, and the glories of the ancestors were engraved on the four rows of stones, and your majesty was on the diadem upon his head.