Psalms 8:4

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Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

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  • Ps 144:3 : 3 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?
  • Job 7:17 : 17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
  • Heb 2:6-9 : 6 Instead someone testified somewhere:“What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor. 8 You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control, 9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • Ezek 8:15 : 15 He said to me,“Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!”
  • Job 25:6 : 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
  • Ps 4:2 : 2 You 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)
  • Ps 80:17 : 17 May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself!
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
  • Ps 146:3 : 3 Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 Jesus said to him,“Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  • Gen 21:1 : 1 The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 and the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 2:6-7
    2 verses
    91%

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

    7You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

  • Job 7:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    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 144:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3O 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?

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

  • Ps 8:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

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

    6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,

  • Ps 8:3
    78%

    3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

  • Job 25:6
    74%

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

  • Job 10:3-6
    4 verses
    72%

    3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

    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,

  • Job 15:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

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

    14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 113:6
    72%

    6He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.

  • Ps 80:17
    72%

    17May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself!

  • Ps 89:47
    71%

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

  • Job 36:24
    71%

    24Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

  • Job 18:3
    71%

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

  • Ps 103:14
    71%

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

  • Job 4:17
    70%

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

  • Job 38:4
    70%

    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • Job 31:14
    69%

    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Isa 2:22
    69%

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

  • Ps 8:1
    69%

    1For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!

  • Eccl 6:11
    69%

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

  • Job 20:4
    69%

    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Job 14:3
    69%

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

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    69%

    19And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD?

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    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)

  • Ps 14:2
    69%

    2The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

  • Ps 53:2
    69%

    2God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

  • Ps 90:3
    68%

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

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Ps 4:2
    68%

    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)

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

    17And you did not stop there, O God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. You have revealed to me what men long to know, O LORD God.

    18What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition.

  • Hab 1:14
    68%

    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • Ps 102:25
    68%

    25In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

  • Job 22:12
    68%

    12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

  • Eccl 3:21
    67%

    21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

  • Job 7:20
    67%

    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • Job 10:12
    67%

    12You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

  • Ps 139:17
    67%

    17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!

  • Ps 139:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.