What is man — How mean and inconsiderable a thing is man, if compared with thy glorious majesty. 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. Mindful — Carest for him, and conferest such high favours upon him. The son — Heb. the son of Adam, that great apostate from 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. Visitest — Not in anger, as that word is sometimes used, but with thy grace and mercy.
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Psalms 8:4
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?