What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
Psalm 144:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 O Lord, what are humans that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Lord, what is man that You take notice of him? Or [the] son of man that You take account of him? [Job 7:17; Ps. 8:4; Heb. 2:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? Common English Bible What are human beings, LORD, that you know them at all? What are human beings that you even consider them? Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy. And there is no end to his greatness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end. |
What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
What are humans, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,
what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]
But someone has testified somewhere, “What are humans that you are mindful of them or mortals that you care for them?