PSA 8:5 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Τί ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, ὅτι μιμνήσκῃ αὐτοῦ; ἢ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου, ὅτι ἐπισκέπτῃ αὐτόν;
(Ti estin anthrōpos, hoti mimnaʸskaʸ autou; aʸ huios anthrōpou, hoti episkeptaʸ auton; )

BrTr What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

ULT Yet you have made him to lack little from the heavenly beings,
⇔ and with glory and majesty you have crowned him.

UST In fact though, you made humans to be just slightly lower than heavenly beings.
⇔ You made humans to be glorious and majestic like you.

BSB You made him a little lower than the angels;[fn]
⇔ You crowned him with glory and honor.

8:5 Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.

OEB ⇔ Yet you made them little less than divine,
⇔ crowned them with glory and majesty,

WEBBE For you have made him a little lower than the angels,[fn]
⇔ and crowned him with glory and honour.

8:5 Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET and make them a little less than the heavenly beings?
⇔ You grant mankind honor and majesty;

LSV You make him a little lower than the gods [[or God]],
And surround him with glory and majesty.

FBV You created them a little lower than God,[fn] crowning them with glory and majesty.

8:5 “God”: or, “the angels” or “heavenly beings.” The word used is “elohim,” one of the usual names for God.

T4T You made the angels in heaven to be only a little more important than we are;
⇔ you caused us to be like kings [MET] and you gave us splendor and honor [DOU]!

LEB • [fn] and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.

8:? Or “than God”

BBE For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

Moff I ask, “And what is man, that thou should’st think of him?
⇔ What is a mortal man, that thou should’st heed him?”

JPS (8-6) Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

ASV For thou hast made him but little lower than God,
⇔ And crownest him with glory and honor.

DRA What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi?

YLT And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

Drby Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

RV For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour.

Wbstr For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

KJB-1769 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
(For thou/you hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crownd him with glory and honour. )

KJB-1611 For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
(For thou/you hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crownd him with glory and honour.)

Bshps Thou hast made hym somthyng inferiour to angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and worship.
(Thou hast made him somthyng inferiour to angels: thou/you hast crownd him with glory and worship.)

Gnva For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship.
(For thou/you hast made him a little lower then God, and crownd him with glory and worship. )

Cvdl After thou haddest for a season made him lower the the angels, thou crownedest him with honor & glory.
(After thou/you haddest for a season made him lower the the angels, thou/you crowndest him with honor and glory.)

Wycl What is a man, that thou art myndeful of hym; ethir the sone of a virgyn, for thou visitist hym?
(What is a man, that thou/you art mindful of him; ethir the son of a virgin, for thou/you visitist him?)

Luth Was ist der Mensch, daß du sein gedenkest; und des Menschen Kind, daß du dich sein annimmst?
(What is the/of_the Mensch, that you his gedenkest; and the Menschen Kind, that you you/yourself his annimmst?)

ClVg Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?[fn]
(What it_is homo, that memor you_are his? aut son of_man, quoniam visitas him? )

8.5 Quid est homo. Ibid. Secundo, naturam hominis olim vitiatam dicit in Christo super omnia exaltatam. Prius enim ostenderat omnipotentiam Deitatis. Per hominem, peccatores; per filium hominis, spirituales. Ibid. Homo, quilibet vilis, cujus memor Deus miserendo, Filius hominis, Christus homo: quoniam per eum tu visitas eum, cum Verbum caro factum est, in quo medicus venit ad infirmos. Aut filius. AUG. Disjunctio innuit distare inter hominem et filium hominis. Omnis filius hominis homo, sed non e converso ut Adam. Homo ergo omnis, qui portat imaginem terreni: Filius hominis, qui cœlestis, et merito novus homo, filius hominis: quia novus ex veteri quadam mutatione fit. AUG. Cur relictis altioribus hæc ima dicit? Sed oves, etc., usque ad qui semine verbi Dei hominum corda fructificare faciunt.

8.5 What it_is homo. Ibid. Secundo, naturam of_man olim vitiatam dicit in Christo over everything exaltatam. Prius because ostenderat omnipotentiam of_Godtatis. Per hominem, peccatores; through son of_man, spirituales. Ibid. Homo, quilibet vilis, cuyus memor God miserendo, Son of_man, Christus homo: quoniam through him you visitas him, when/with Verbum caro done it_is, in quo medicus he_came to infirmos. Aut son. AUG. Disyunctio innuit distare between hominem and son of_man. Everyone son of_man homo, but not/no e converso as Adam. Homo therefore omnis, who portat imaginem terreni: Son of_man, who cœlestis, and merito novus homo, son of_man: because novus from veteri quadam mutatione fit. AUG. Cur relictis altioribus these_things ima dicit? But oves, etc., until to who semine verbi of_God of_men corda fructificare faciunt.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / extrainfo

וַ⁠תְּחַסְּרֵ֣⁠הוּ