Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 143:2
2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in your sight.
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
1Lord, hear my prayer. In your faithfulness listen to my plea, and in your righteousness answer me. Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in your sight. 3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making me live in darkness like those long dead. 4My spirit is weak within me; my heart is overcome with dismay.
Read all of Psalms 143Psalms 143:2 word by word
וְאַל־תָּב֣וֹא בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט אֶת־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־יִצְדַּ֖ק לְפָנֶ֣יךָ כָל־חָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 143:2
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you kept an account of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
- Job 14:3Do you really take notice of one like this? Will you bring me into judgment against you?
- Exodus 34:7maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
- Job 4:17“Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?”
- Job 9:2Yes, I know what you’ve said is true, but how can a person be justified before God?
- Job 15:14What is a mere human, that he should be pure, or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 25:4How can a human be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Ecclesiastes 7:20There is certainly no one righteous on the earth who does good and never sins.
- Romans 3:20For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
- Galatians 2:16and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
- 1 John 1:10If we say, “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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