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what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?

Yet you have made them a little lower than God,[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honour.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Heb ben adam, lit. son of man
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or than the divine beings or angels: Heb elohim

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