Parallel Verses

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.

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 ([Psalm of David]) Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in your faithfulness. Answer me in your righteousness! 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.
3 For the enemy has persecuted me. He has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is no man on earth who is righteous and does not sin.

Job 14:3

Do you look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 130:3

If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

Romans 3:20

No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

Job 4:17

Can any mortal be righteous to God? Can any human being be pure to his maker?

Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.

Exodus 34:7

I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin. But I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their fathers.

1 Kings 8:46

They may sin against you, for everyone sins. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy far or near who takes them to another country as captives.

Job 9:2-3

Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous 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.

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