I Stretch Out My Hands to You
Psalms 143:2
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, || For no one living is justified before You.
- YLT
- And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.
- DBY
- And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
- DRC142:2
- And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
- GNV
- (And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)
- JPS
- And enter not into judgment with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.
- LXXE142:2
- And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְאַל־תָּב֣וֹא בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט אֶת־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־יִצְדַּ֖ק לְפָנֶ֣יךָ כָל־חָֽי׃
- LXX-Br142:2
- Καὶ μὴ εἰσέλθῃς εἰς κρίσιν μετὰ τοῦ δούλου σου, ὅτι οὐ δικαιωθήσεται ἐνώπιόν σου πᾶς ζῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Judging JudgmentFall, TheJustification Before GodJudgment, TheJusticeDepravity of ManImputationManDavidAfflictions and Adversities
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
- Romans 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- 1 John 1:10If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
- Galatians 2:16know 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…
- Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and…
- Job 9:2–3“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
- 1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 142:2 in some Bibles
- 143:2 in most Bibles