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But someone has testified somewhere,

“What are humans that you are mindful of them[a]
    or mortals that you care for them?[b](A)

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  1. 2.6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
  2. 2.6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind

But there is a place where someone(A) has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?(B)

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what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?(A)

Yet you have made them a little lower than God[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honor.(B)
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,(C)
all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

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  1. 8.4 Heb son of man
  2. 8.5 Or than the divine beings or angels

what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](A)

You have made them[b] a little lower than the angels[c](B)
    and crowned them[d] with glory and honor.(C)
You made them rulers(D) over the works of your hands;(E)
    you put everything under their[e] feet:(F)
all flocks and herds,(G)
    and the animals of the wild,(H)
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(I)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

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  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  3. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  4. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  5. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

O Lord, what are humans that you regard them,
    or mortals that you think of them?(A)

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Lord, what are human beings(A) that you care for them,
    mere mortals that you think of them?

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17 What are humans, that you make so much of them,
    that you set your mind on them,(A)
18 visit them every morning,
    test them every moment?

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17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(A)
18 that you examine them every morning(B)
    and test them(C) every moment?(D)

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12 I, I am he who comforts you;
    why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die,
    a human being who fades like grass?(A)

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12 “I, even I, am he who comforts(A) you.
    Who are you that you fear(B) mere mortals,(C)
    human beings who are but grass,(D)

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how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
    and a human being, who is a worm!”(A)

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how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(A) who is only a worm!”(B)

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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For somewhere it speaks about the seventh day as follows, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”(A)

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For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[a](A)

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  1. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2

11 inquiring about the time and circumstances[a] that the Spirit of Christ within them indicated when it testified in advance to the sufferings intended for Christ and the subsequent glory.(A)

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  1. 1.11 Or the person and time

11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ(A) in them was pointing when he predicted(B) the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.

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16 Fear seized all of them, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”(A)

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16 They were all filled with awe(A) and praised God.(B) “A great prophet(C) has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.”(D)

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24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely come to you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”(A)

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24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die.(A) But God will surely come to your aid(B) and take you up out of this land to the land(C) he promised on oath to Abraham,(D) Isaac(E) and Jacob.”(F)

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as he says also in another place,

“You are a priest forever,
    according to the order of Melchizedek.”(A)

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And he says in another place,

“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.(A)[a](B)

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  1. Hebrews 5:6 Psalm 110:4

78 Because of the tender mercy of our God,
    the dawn from on high will break[a] upon[b] us,

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  1. 1.78 Other ancient authorities read has broken
  2. 1.78 Gk will visit

78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
    by which the rising sun(A) will come to us from heaven

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