Inequality

'Human beings come from the ground, Adam himself was formed out of earth;
in the fullness of his wisdom the Lord has made distinctions between them, and diversified their conditions.
Some of them he has blessed, hallowing and setting them near him; others he has cursed and humiliated by degrading them from their positions.
Like clay in the hands of the potter to mould as it pleases him, so are human beings in the hands of their Maker to reward as he judges right.'

Sirach 33.10-13