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17 (A)Why are people so important to you?
    Why pay attention to what they do?
18 You inspect them every morning
    and test them every minute.

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(A)Lord, what are mortals, that you notice them;
    mere mortals, that you pay attention to us?

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(A)Instead, as it is said somewhere in the Scriptures:

“What are human beings, O God, that you should think of them;
    mere human beings, that you should care for them?
You made them for a little while lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor,[a]
    and made them rulers over all things.”

It says that God made them “rulers over all things”; this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see human beings ruling over all things now.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Many manuscripts add: You made them rulers over everything you made (see Ps 8.6).

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