Our first footnote from Psalms 8:4-5 launches from the question - what is Man? A question that the writer of Job has asked as well. He has Job ask
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
תְגַדְּלֶנּוּ
"t'gadlenu" is a Piel form of the verbal root GDL, which carries the meaning of "to make great, cause to grow." The phrase can also be translated as "magnify, give importance to."
תָשִׁית
"tasheeth" is from the verb "to put or set or place." Literally God sets his heart towards us. Where the Hebrew heart includes what in English we would term heart AND mind, it also implies that he sets his mind towards us and turns his attention to us.
תִּפְקְדֶנּוּ
"tifk'denu" we have already met, from the verb PKD, "to visit,” “to go see,” “to look after,” and “to take care of.”
תִּבְחָנֶנּוּ
"tivhanenu" comes from the verbal root BHN, "to prove, try or test."
Who, in their relationship with God, hasn't marveled that he expends so much time, effort and affection towards us. And, as the scripture here indicates, that he does so daily.
Who hasn't squirmed just a little under the constant series of tests and lessons the Lord seems to arrange for us, moment by moment.
Why all of this concern, asks Job? What IS Man? Mormonism's short answer to Job's long question is that we are indeed the Children of the Most High, and that we receive a Father's loving concern.
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