Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

References

Questions on Psalm 143:2

Context Readings

A Cry For Help

1 A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, Give ear unto my supplications, In Thy faithfulness answer me -- in Thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee. 3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

Job 14:3

Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

Job 25:4

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Psalm 130:3

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Romans 3:20

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

Job 4:17

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

Job 15:14

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Galatians 2:16

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

Exodus 34:7

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

1 Kings 8:46

'When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

Job 9:2-3

Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

1 John 1:10

if we may say -- 'we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

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