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Psalm 8:4-6
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4 And I wonder, “Why are people so important to you?
    Why do you even think about them?
Why do you care so much about humans[a]?
    Why do you even notice them?”

5 But you made them almost like gods
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You put them in charge of everything you made.
    You put everything under their control.

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  1. Psalm 8:4 people … humans Literally, “man … son of man” or “Enosh … son of Adam.” These are Hebrew ways of saying humans—descendants of Adam and Enosh.
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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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