Psalms 143:2
What does Psalms 143:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 143:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:2
Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
- Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
- 1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;
- Psalms 130:3
If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Exodus 34:7
keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
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