Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 8:4

4. What is man that thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man that thou visitest him ?

(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 shewed in the Frame of the Heavens, &c.

Heb. infirm, or miserable man. By which it is apparent that he speaks of Man, not according to the sta[illegible: 1+ letters]e of his Creation, but as fallen into a state of Sin and Misery, and Mortality.

(i. e.) Carest for him, and conferrest such high Favours upon him.

Heb. the son of Adam, that great Apostate from, and Rebel against God, the finful Son of a sinful Father, his Son b[illegible: 1+ letters] likeness of Disposition and Manners no less than by Procreation. All which tends to magnify the following Mercy.

Not in anger, as that Word is sometimes used, but with thy Grace and Mercy, as it is taken Gen. 21. 1. Exod. 4. 31. Psal. 65. 9. and 106. 4. and 144, 3.

Marginal references: Job. 7. 17▪ Psal. 144. 4. Heb. 2. [illegible: 1+ letters].