Psalms 8:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
  • Job 7:17 : 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
  • Heb 2:6-9 : 6 But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands: 8 You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now. 9 But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
  • Ezek 8:15 : 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.
  • Job 25:6 : 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
  • Ps 4:2 : 2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
  • Ps 80:17 : 17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;
  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Gen 21:1 : 1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 2:6-7
    2 verses
    91%

    6But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account?

    7You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands:

  • Job 7:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

    18And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 8:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

    6You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

  • Ps 8:3
    78%

    3When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

  • Job 25:6
    74%

    6How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 10:3-6
    4 verses
    72%

    3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

    4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

    5Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

    6That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • Job 15:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

    14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • Ps 113:6
    72%

    6Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

  • Ps 80:17
    72%

    17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

  • Ps 89:47
    71%

    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Job 36:24
    71%

    24See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

  • Job 18:3
    71%

    3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Ps 103:14
    71%

    14For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

  • Job 4:17
    70%

    17May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Job 38:4
    70%

    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

  • Job 31:14
    69%

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Isa 2:22
    69%

    22Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • Ps 8:1
    69%

    1<To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

  • Eccl 6:11
    69%

    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Job 20:4
    69%

    4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Job 14:3
    69%

    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    69%

    19And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    5You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Ps 14:2
    69%

    2The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

  • Ps 53:2
    69%

    2God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

  • Ps 90:3
    68%

    3You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

    9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

  • Ps 4:2
    68%

    2O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

  • 1 Chr 17:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God.

    18What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant.

  • Hab 1:14
    68%

    14He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

  • Ps 102:25
    68%

    25In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

  • Job 22:12
    68%

    12Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

  • Eccl 3:21
    67%

    21Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

  • Job 7:20
    67%

    20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • Job 10:12
    67%

    12You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.

  • Ps 139:17
    67%

    17How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

  • Ps 139:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

    15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.