Encapsulating various factors involved in their failure, Jeremiah 10: 23 points out: “I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong.
परमेश्‍वर से विमुख, मनुष्य एक धर्मी और न्यायपूर्ण संसार बनाने में समर्थ है ही नहीं । — नीतिवचन १४: १२; सभोपदेशक ८: ९.