one is set at Psalm 144:3, when David, apparently flush from some military victory or other, makes an expression of absolute faith and trust in divine Providence: "Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him!" That particular Psalm ends with a glorification: "happy is the people, whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 144:15).
At Heb. 2.6ff, Paul basically quotes the Psalm but connects it to moral experience and the relationship between God and humanity via what he sees as the special experience of Jesus. The keynote here is not despair or joyous triumphalism but ambiguity. That comes in at Heb. 2.8, which accepts that humanity got the dominion promised in Genesis and celebtated in the Psalms, but which also supplies a reality check: "But now we see not yet all things put under him." Heb. 2.9 continues: "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." One does not have to be a professing Christian to see that if the gift of m
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