Psalms 143:2 · KJV
“And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.”
— Psalms 143:2
[A Psalm of David.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, {and} in thy righteousness.
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.
Psalms 143 — Context
[A Psalm of David.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, {and} in thy righteousness.
2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
3For 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.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean {that is} born of a woman?
Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law {is} the knowledge of sin.
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Job 15:14
What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?