Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

Holman Bible

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

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 Psalm of David.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Job 14:3

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 130:3

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Romans 3:20

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Job 4:17

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Job 9:2-3

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

1 John 1:10

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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