Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsJehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Jehovah, what is man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?
Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.