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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

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

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

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

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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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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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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

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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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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as he says also in another place,

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

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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

68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
    for he has looked favorably on[a] his people and redeemed them.(A)

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  1. 1.68 Or has visited

17 All the nations are as nothing before him;
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.(A)

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Do not put your trust in princes,
    in mortals, in whom there is no help.(A)
When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
    on that very day their plans perish.(B)

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