Verse 6

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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?
  • Ps 8:4-8 : 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? 5 You made them a little less than the heavenly beings. You crowned mankind with honor and majesty. 6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, 7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, 8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
  • Job 7:17-18 : 17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them? 18 And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?
  • Job 25:6 : 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
  • 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?
  • Heb 4:4 : 4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Because of our God’s tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high
  • Luke 7:16 : 16 Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying,“A great prophet has appeared among us!” and“God has come to help his people!”
  • Heb 5:6 : 6 as also in another place God says,“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.
  • 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.
  • Isa 40:17 : 17 All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.