Psalm 143:2 {142:2}
Good News Translation
Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

enter not

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Job 14:3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

in thy sight

Exodus 34:7 Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.

Job 4:17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 9:2,3 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God. . . .

Job 15:14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

Job 25:4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Galatians 2:16 But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his word is not in us.

Context
I Stretch Out My Hands to You
1A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice. 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:…
Cross References
Romans 3:10
As it is written: There is not any man just.

Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Galatians 2:16
But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

1 Kings 8:46
But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;

Job 4:17
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 9:2
Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 14:3
And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Job 22:4
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

Job 25:4
Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

Psalm 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Psalm 130:3
If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Psalm 143:1
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