Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

New American Standard Bible

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

King James Version

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

International Standard Version

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

A Conservative Version

And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

American Standard Version

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Amplified


And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous or justified.

Darby Translation

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.

King James 2000

And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

Modern King James verseion

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

NET Bible

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

New Heart English Bible

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Webster

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

World English Bible

Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Youngs Literal Translation

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

References

Questions on Psalm 143:2

Context Readings

A Cry For Help

1 A Davidic psalm.Lord, hear my prayer.
In Your faithfulness listen to my plea,
and in Your righteousness answer me.
2 Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
3 For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth
who does good and never sins.

Job 14:3

Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

Job 25:4

How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 130:3

Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?

Romans 3:20

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

Job 4:17

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Galatians 2:16

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

Exodus 34:7

maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.

1 Kings 8:46

When they sin against You—
for there is no one who does not sin
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country
whether distant or nearby—

Job 9:2-3

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
but how can a person be justified before God?

1 John 1:10

If we say, “We don’t have any sin,” we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

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