Psalms 144:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 8:4 : 4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?
  • Heb 2:6 : 6 Instead someone testified somewhere:“What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?
  • Job 7:17 : 17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver! 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

    18And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?

  • Ps 8:4-5
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    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

    5You made them a little less than the heavenly beings. You crowned mankind with honor and majesty.

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    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Heb 2:6
    78%

    6Instead someone testified somewhere:“What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

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  • Job 25:6
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    6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Isa 2:22
    75%

    22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

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    75%

    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Job 10:4-6
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    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

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    14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

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    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

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    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

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    11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

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    2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)

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    6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

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    13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

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    71%

    2What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

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