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

⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[a](A)

⁵ You have made them^[b] a little lower than the angels^[c](B)
    and crowned them^[d] with glory and honor.^(C)
6 You made them rulers^(D) over the works of your hands;^(E)
    you put everything under their^[e] feet:^(F)
7 all flocks and herds,^(G)
    and the animals of the wild,^(H)
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,^(I)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

³ Lord, what are human beings^(A) that you care for them,
    mere mortals that you think of them?

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)

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)

⁶ how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(A) who is only a worm!”^(B)

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