18 If God places no trust in his servants,(A)
    if he charges his angels with error,(B)
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(C)
    whose foundations(D) are in the dust,(E)
    who are crushed(F) more readily than a moth!(G)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
    unnoticed, they perish forever.(H)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(I)
    so that they die(J) without wisdom?’(K)

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18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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You have made them[a] a little lower than the angels[b](A)
    and crowned them[c] with glory and honor.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  3. Psalm 8:5 Or him

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

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    and put everything under their feet.”[a][b](A)

In putting everything under them,[c] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[d] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6
  2. Hebrews 2:8 Or You made him a little lower than the angels;/ you crowned him with glory and honor/ and put everything under his feet.”
  3. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  4. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  5. Hebrews 2:8 Or him

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

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