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

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

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

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

¹⁴ Can any mortal be pure?
    Can anyone born of a woman be just?

³ Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
    there is no help for you there.
⁴ When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
    and all their plans die with them.