Psalm 8:4 {5}
Good News Translation
what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?

New Revised Standard Version
what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Contemporary English Version
Then I ask, "Why do you care about us humans? Why are you concerned for us weaklings?"

New American Bible
What is man that you are mindful of him, and a son of man that you care for him?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

What

Psalm 144:3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

2 Chronicles 6:18 Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?

Job 7:17 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 25:6 How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

Isaiah 40:17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Hebrews 2:6-9 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

son

Psalm 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

Psalm 80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

Psalm 146:3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Isaiah 51:12 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

Ezekiel 8:15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

visitest

Psalm 106:4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

Genesis 21:1 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

Exodus 4:31 And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.

Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people.

Luke 19:44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Context
How Majestic is Your Name!
3For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?5Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:…
Cross References
Hebrews 2:6
But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Job 7:17
What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 14:3
And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Psalm 144:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Psalm 8:3
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