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I have read something somewhere:

I can’t help but wonder why You care about mortals
    or choose to love the son of man.
7-8 Though he was born below the heavenly messengers,
    You honored the son of man like royalty,
    crowning him with glory and honor,
Raising him above all earthly things,
    placing everything under his feet.[a]

When God placed everything under the son of man, He didn’t leave out anything. Maybe we don’t see all that happening yet;

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But there is a place where someone(A) has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?(B)
You made them a little[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor
    and put everything under their feet.”[b][c](C)

In putting everything under them,[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 2:7 Or them for a little while
  2. Hebrews 2:8 Psalm 8:4-6
  3. Hebrews 2:8 Or You made him a little lower than the angels;/ you crowned him with glory and honor/ and put everything under his feet.”
  4. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  5. Hebrews 2:8 Or him
  6. Hebrews 2:8 Or him