Psalms 143:2
Don’t enter into judgement with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
In Context
1Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Job 4:17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 14:3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgement with you?
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t 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 in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 143:2-7
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate… Read the whole commentary →