Psalms 143:2
1 O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- KJV
- And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- 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.
- DARBY
- And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
- BLB
- And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for not anyone alive is righteous before Your face.
- ÅB
- og gå ikke i rette med din tjener! For ingen som lever, er rettferdig for ditt åsyn.
- OTB
- Og la ikke din tjener stå til rette,
For ingen som lever er rettferdig for deg. - B1930
- og gå ikke i rette med din tjener! For ingen som lever, er rettferdig for ditt åsyn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Read in contextRomans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Read in contextJob 25:4
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Read in contextPsalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Read in context1 John 1:10
If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
Read in contextJob 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextGalatians 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.
Read in contextJob 14:3
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
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