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

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what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?(A)

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  1. 8.4 Heb son of man

17 What are humans, that you make so much of them,
    that you set your mind on them,(A)

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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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Footnotes

  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

14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(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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