Job 7:17
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
BSB
ASV
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
KJV
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Job ought rather to have reasoned from God's condescending so far to notice man as to try him, that there must be a wise and loving purpose in trial. David uses the same words, in their right application, to express wonder that God should do so much as He does for insignificant man. Christians who know God manifest in the man Christ Jesus may use them still more.
What, &c. - What is there in that poor, mean, creature called man, miserable man, as this word signifies, which can induce thee to take any notice of him, or to make such account of him? Man is not worthy of thy favour, and he is below thy anger; that thou shouldest concern thyself so much about him, as one near and dear to thee?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
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O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
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Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
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what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
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Psalms 144:3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
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what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.