Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

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.

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.} Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. 3 For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

Job 14:3

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

Job 25:4

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalm 130:3

If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

Romans 3:20

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

Job 4:17

Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

Job 15:14

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

Galatians 2:16

but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law nor but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of the faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.

Exodus 34:7

keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

1 Kings 8:46

If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

Job 9:2-3

Of a truth I know it is so; but how can 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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