Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms 143:2 in other translations
| BSB | Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You. |
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| WEB | Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous. |
| ASV | And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous. |
| YLT | And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee. |
| DARBY | And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. |
| BBE | Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes. |
| Webster | And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. |
What does Psalms 143:2 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 143:1-6
We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely given us, and caused us to hope in. David, before he prays for the removal of his trouble, prays for the pardon of his sin, and depends upon mercy alone for it. He bemoans the weight upon his mind from outward troubles. But he looks back, and remembers God's former appearance for his…
Psalms 143:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 143:2
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
- Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Psalms 130:3
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- 1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
- Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
- Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
- Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- 1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
- Exodus 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
- Job 9:2-3
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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Context
- Psalms 143:1
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
- Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- Psalms 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms 143:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y no entres en juicio con tu siervo; porque no se justificará delante de ti ningún viviente. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et n’entre pas en jugement avec ton serviteur, car devant toi nul homme vivant ne sera justifié. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knechte! denn vor dir ist kein Lebendiger gerecht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Misericordia mea et refugium meum; susceptor meus et liberator meus; protector meus, et in ipso speravi, qui subdit populum meum sub me. |