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[a]What is man that you are mindful of him,(A)
    and a son of man that you care for him?(B)
Yet you have made him little less than a god,[b]
    crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,(C)
    put all things at his feet:

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Footnotes

  1. 8:5 Man…a son of man: the emphasis is on the fragility and mortality of human beings to whom God has given great dignity.
  2. 8:6 Little less than a god: Hebrew ‘elohim, the ordinary word for “God” or “the gods” or members of the heavenly court. The Greek version translated ‘elohim by “angel, messenger”; several ancient and modern versions so translate. The meaning seems to be that God created human beings almost at the level of the beings in the heavenly world. Hb 2:9, translating “for a little while,” finds the eminent fulfillment of this verse in Jesus Christ, who was humbled before being glorified, cf. also 1 Cor 15:27 where St. Paul applies to Christ the closing words of Ps 8:7.