Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

Darby Translation

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

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 Chanting to David. O Jahovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice. 2 And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee. 3 For the enemy pursued my soul; he crushed to the earth my life; he caused me to dwell in darknesses, as the dead of old.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For not a just man in the earth, who shall do good and not sin.

Job 14:3

Also upon this one didst thou open thine eyes? and wilt thou bring Me into judgment with thee?

Job 25:4

And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?

Psalm 130:3

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

Romans 3:20

Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.

Job 4:17

Shall a man be just above God? If a man shall be pure above him making him?

Job 15:14

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Exodus 34:7

Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.

1 Kings 8:46

For they will sin against thee (for no man which will not sin) and thou wert angry with them and gave them before the enemy, and they carried them away their captives to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Job 9:2-3

I knew that so the truth: and how shall 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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