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Psalm 8:4-6
New Living Translation

4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?[a]
5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God[b]
    and crowned them[c] with glory and honor.
6 You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—

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  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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Psalm 8:4-6
New International Version

4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](A)

5 You have made them[b] a little lower than the angels[c](B)
    and crowned them[d] with glory and honor.(C)
6 You made them rulers(D) over the works of your hands;(E)
    you put everything under their[e] feet:(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
  2. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  3. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  4. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  5. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his
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