Psalm 144:3 {143:3}
Good News Translation
LORD, what are mortals, that you notice them; mere mortals, that you pay attention to us?

New Revised Standard Version
O LORD, what are human beings that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them?

Contemporary English Version
Why do we humans mean anything to you, our LORD? Why do you care about us?

New American Bible
LORD, what is man that you take notice of him; the son of man, that you think of him?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

what is man

Psalm 8:4 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 16:14 He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

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?

or the son

Psalm 146:3,4 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
2My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. 3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.…
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?

1 Chronicles 16:25
For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.

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 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

Psalm 144:2
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