American Standard Version
Psalms 143:2
2And enter not into judgment with thy servant;For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Psalms 143:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.
Context of Psalms 143:2
1Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous. 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Read all of Psalms 143Psalms 143:2 word by word
וְאַל־תָּב֣וֹא בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט אֶת־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־יִצְדַּ֖ק לְפָנֶ֣יךָ כָל־חָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 143:2
- Psalms 130:3If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Job 14:3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
- Exodus 34:7keeping lovingkindness 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, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
- Job 4:17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
- Job 9:2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- Romans 3:20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
- Galatians 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
- 1 John 1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Commentaries on Psalms 143:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant - Do not deal with me on the ground of justice as toward “thee;” do not mark my own offences against thee, when I plead that justice may be done as between me and my fellow-men. While I plead that thou wouldst judge righteously between me and them, I am conscious that I could not claim thy needed interposition on the ground of any righteousness toward thee. There I must confess that I am a sinner; there I can…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Everyone has sinned and is guilty before God (Romans 3:20–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. enter ... judgment--deal not in strict justice. shall no ... justified--or, "is no man justified," or "innocent" (Job 14:3; Ro 3:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 143
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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