Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
New American Standard Bible
For in Your sight
King James Version
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Themes
Judgment » None, by nature can stand in
Justification » Of self, impossible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
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Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 143:2
Questions on Psalm 143:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry For Help
1 A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me! 2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you. 3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
Job 14:3
Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
Romans 3:20
For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Job 4:17
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
Job 15:14
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Galatians 2:16
yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Exodus 34:7
keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children's children, to the third and fourth generation."
1 Kings 8:46
"The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
Job 9:2-3
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.