Psalm 143:2
New International Version
Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.

New Living Translation
Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.

English Standard Version
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

King James Bible
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

New King James Version
Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

New American Standard Bible
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no person living is righteous in Your sight.

NASB 1995
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

NASB 1977
And do not enter into judgment with Thy servant, For in Thy sight no man living is righteous.

Legacy Standard Bible
And do not enter into judgment with Your slave, For no one living is righteous in Your sight.

Amplified Bible
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no man living is righteous or justified.

Christian Standard Bible
Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in your sight.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

American Standard Version
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not bring your Servant to judgment, because no one who lives is innocent before you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Contemporary English Version
I am your servant. Don't try me in your court, because no one is innocent by your standards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not take me to court for judgment, because there is no one alive who is righteous in your presence.

Good News Translation
Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.

International Standard Version
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And enter not into judgment with Thy servant; For in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Literal Standard Version
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, | For no one living is justified before You.

Majority Standard Bible
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

New American Bible
Do not enter into judgment with your servant; before you no one can be just.

NET Bible
Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

New Heart English Bible
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

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Context
I Stretch Out My Hands to You
1A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me. 2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You. 3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.…

Cross References
Romans 3:10
As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one.

Romans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

1 Corinthians 4:4
My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

Galatians 2:16
know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You--for there is no one who does not sin--and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

Job 4:17
Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 9:2
"Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?


Treasury of Scripture

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

enter not

Psalm 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

in thy sight

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 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 9:2,3
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? …

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Psalm 143
1. David prays for favor in judgment
3. He complains of his grief
5. He strengthens his faith by meditation and prayer
7. He prays for grace
9. For deliverance
10. For sanctification
12. For destruction of his enemies














(2) And enter not.--The Divine justice has just been invoked, and now the appellant suddenly seems to deprecate it. These verses really sum up the apparent paradox of the Book of Job, as also the expressions recall that Book. (See Job 4:17; Job 9:2; Job 9:32; Job 14:3, seq., Job 15:14; Job 22:4, &c) In one breath Job frequently pours forth pathetic protestations of his innocence, and dread lest God should take him at his word and arraign him for trial. Man, in his desire to have his character vindicated before man, appeals to the just Judge, but instantly falls back with a guilty sense that before that tribunal none can stand: . . . Verse 2. - And enter not into judgment with thy servant. The psalmist, having touched the point of abstract justice, shrinks from pressing it. He knows that he is not "righteous before God," and that his life and conduct "cannot endure the severity of God's judgment" (Art. XII.). He therefore "deprecates a strictly retributive treatment" (Cheyne). For in thy sight shall no man living be justified (comp. Psalm 130:3; and see also Job 4:17-19; Job 9:2; Job 15:14; Job 25:4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
וְאַל־ (wə·’al-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

bring
תָּב֣וֹא (tā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

Your servant
עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ (‘aḇ·de·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

into judgment,
בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט (ḇə·miš·pāṭ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

no one
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

alive
חָֽי׃ (ḥāy)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

is righteous
יִצְדַּ֖ק (yiṣ·daq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6663: To be just or righteous

before You.
לְפָנֶ֣יךָ (lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face


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