Hebrews 2:6
Good News Translation
Instead, as it is said somewhere in the Scriptures: "What are human beings, O God, that you should think of them; mere human beings, that you should care for them?

New Revised Standard Version
But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?

Contemporary English Version
Somewhere in the Scriptures someone says to God, "What makes you care about us humans? Why are you concerned for weaklings such as we?

New American Bible
Instead, someone has testified somewhere: “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

in.

Hebrews 4:4 For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

1 Peter 1:11 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow.

What.

Job 7:17,18 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? . . .

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

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Psalm 8:4-8 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

Psalm 144:3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Isaiah 40:17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

the son.

Job 25:6 How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

Psalm 146:3,4 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Isaiah 51:12 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

visitest.

Genesis 50:24 After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Luke 1:68,78 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people. . . .

Luke 7:16 And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.

Context
Jesus Like His Brothers
5For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak. 6But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands.…
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Psalm 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalm 144:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

Hebrews 4:4
For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Hebrews 2:5
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