Psalms 8:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What, i.e. how mean and inconsiderable a thing is man, if compared with thy glorious Majesty, who art so infinite in power and wisdom, as thou hast showed in the frame of the heavens, &c. Man, Heb. infirm or miserable man; by which it is apparent that he speaks of man, not according to the state of his creation, but as fallen into a state of sin, and misery, and mortality. Art mindful of him, i.e. carest for him, and conferrest such high favours upon him. The son of man, Heb. the son of Adam, that great apostate from and rebel against God, the sinful son of a sinful father, his son by likeness of disposition and manners, no less than by procreation; all which tends to magnify the following mercy. That thou visitest him; not in anger, as that word is sometimes used, but with thy grace and mercy, as it is taken, Genesis 21:1 Exodus 4:31 Psalms 65:9, Psalms 106:4 144:3.