¹⁷ “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,^(A)

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)