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Psalms 143:2
2Do not judge me, your servant. Nobody is righteous when they stand in front of you.
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, I pray to you for help. Please listen to me. Answer me, because you do what is right, and I know that I can trust you. Do not judge me, your servant. Nobody is righteous when they stand in front of you. 3My enemies are chasing me. They knock me down to the ground. They make me live in dark places, like people who have been dead for a long time. 4My strength is leaving me, and I feel very upset.
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 should write down all our sins, nobody could stand as a righteous person.
- Job 14:3I am only a human like that, so why do you watch me so carefully? Why do you want to bring me into a court to judge me?
- Exodus 34:7I faithfully love thousands of people. I forgive their sins when they turn against me. But if people are guilty, I surely punish them. I punish their children, their grandchildren and their grandchildren's children.’
- Job 4:17“No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure in front of his Maker.
- Job 9:2‘The things that you have said are true. But nobody can show God that he is completely good.
- Job 15:14No one who is human can be truly pure and righteous.
- Job 25:4No human is righteous when he stands in front of God. He cannot be pure.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20There is nobody on the earth who is so righteous that they always do what is right. There is nobody who never does a wrong thing.
- Romans 3:20God's Law shows people clearly that they have done wrong things. Nobody can become right with God because they obey that Law.
- Galatians 2:16But we know that we do not become right with God because we obey his Law. A person only becomes right with God when they believe in Jesus Christ. And we, as Jewish believers, have believed in Christ Jesus. We have become right with God because we trust in what Christ has done. It is not because we obey God's Law that he accepts us. Nobody becomes right with God only because they obey the rules in God's Law.
- 1 John 1:10God says that all people have done wrong things. So, if we say that we have not done any wrong thing, we are saying that God tells lies. It shows that we have not accepted his message at all.
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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