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So why do you even think about men and women?
    Why do you take care of humans?
You have made their place a little below God himself.[a]
    You have given them honour, like kings.
You have chosen them to rule everything that you have made.
    You have put everything under their authority.

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  1. 8:5 ‘below God himself’ or ‘below the angels’.

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

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

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  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