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

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Footnotes

  1. 8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
  2. 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.
  3. 8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

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