Psalms Chapter 8 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 8:5

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.
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BBE Psalms 8:5

For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.
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DARBY Psalms 8:5

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.
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KJV Psalms 8:5

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
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WBT Psalms 8:5

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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WEB Psalms 8:5

For you have made him a little lower than God,{Hebrew: Elohim} And crowned him with glory and honor.
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YLT Psalms 8:5

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.
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Psalms 8 : 5 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels; rather, thou hast made him but a little lower than God (אלהים). There is no place in the Old Testament where Elohim means "angels;" and, though the LXX. so translate in the present passage, and the rendering has passed from them into the New Testament (Hebrews 2:7), it cannot be regarded as critically correct. The psalmist, in considering how man has been favoured by God, goes back in thought to his creation, and remembers the words of Genesis 1:26, 27, "Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him" (compare the still stronger expression in Psalm 82:6, "I have said, Ye are gods"). And hast crowned him with glory and honour; i.e. "and, by so doing, by giving him a nature but a little short of the Divine, hast put on him a crown of glory such as thou hast given to no other creature." There is a point of view from which the nature of man transcends that of angels, since (1) it is a direct transcript of the Divine (Genesis 1:27); and (2) it is the nature which the Son of God assumed (Hebrews 2:16).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The Hebrew poet dwells on neither of these aspects, but at once passes on to the essential greatness of man and his superiority in creation, by reason of his moral sense and his spiritual likeness to God. Another English poet sings to the stars:--"'Tis to be forgivenThat, in our aspirations to be great,Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,And claim a kindred with you."--BYRON: Childe Harold.But the psalmist looks beyond the bright worlds to a higher kinship with God Himself.For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.--Literally, thou makest him want but a little from God: i.e., hast made him little less than Divine. We should read, however, instead of "for thou," "and thou hast made," &c. The Authorised Version follows the LXX. in a translation suggested doubtlessly by the desire to tone down an expression about the Deity that seemed too bold. That version was adopted in his quotation by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 2:6-7). (See Note in New Testament Commentary.) Undoubtedly the word Elohim, being used to express a class of supernatural beings, includes angels as well as the Divine being (1Samuel 28:13; Zechariah 12:8). But here there is nothing in the context to suggest limitation to one part of that class. . . .