³ When I ^(G)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(H)fingers,
    the moon and the stars, ^(I)which you have set in place,
^4 (J)what is man that you are ^(K)mindful of him,
    and ^(L)the son of man that you ^(M)care for him?

⁵ Yet you have made him a little lower than ^(N)the heavenly beings^[b]
    and crowned him with ^(O)glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him ^(P)dominion over the works of your hands;
    ^(Q)you have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

² “Truly I know that it is so:
    But how can a man be ^(A)in the right before God?
³ If one wished to ^(B)contend with him,
    one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
⁴ He is ^(C)wise in heart and mighty in strength—
    who has ^(D)hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
⁵ he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
    when he overturns them in his anger,
⁶ who ^(E)shakes the earth out of its place,
    and ^(F)its pillars tremble;
⁷ who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    who seals up the stars;
⁸ who alone ^(G)stretched out the heavens
    and trampled the waves of the sea;
⁹ who ^(H)made ^(I)the Bear and ^(J)Orion,
    the Pleiades ^(K)and the chambers of the south;
¹⁰ who does ^(L)great things beyond searching out,
    and marvelous things beyond number.
¹¹ Behold, he passes by me, and I ^(M)see him not;
    he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
¹² Behold, he snatches away; ^(N)who can turn him back?
    ^(O)Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’