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Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock

Psalms 144:3

In 11 translations

BSB
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
KJV
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
WEB
Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
ASV
Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
LSV
YHWH, what [is] man that You know him? The son of man, that You esteem him?
YLT
Jehovah, what [is] man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?
DBY
Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?
DRC143:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
GNV
Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!
JPS
LORD, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that Thou makest account of him?
LXXE143:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְֽהוָ֗ה מָה־אָ֭דָם וַתֵּדָעֵ֑הוּ בֶּן־אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ וַֽתְּחַשְּׁבֵֽהוּ׃
LXX-Br143:3
Κύριε, τί ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, ὅτι ἐγνώσθης αὐτῷ; ἢ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου, ὅτι λογίζῃ αὐτόν;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
  • Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
  • Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
  • Psalms 146:3–4Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
  • Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

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