Psalm 8:4-5

New Living Translation

⁴what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?^[a]
⁵Yet you made them only a little lower than God^[b]
and crowned them^[c] with glory and honor.

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Footnotes

8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
8:5a Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim.
8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

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