¹⁷ “What are people, that you should make so much of us,
    that you should think of us so often?

⁴ what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?^[a]

“What are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    or a son of man^[a] that you should care for him?

³ O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them,
    mere mortals that you should think about them?