Psalms 143:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַל־תָּב֣וֹא בְ֭מִשְׁפָּט אֶת־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־יִצְדַּ֖ק לְפָנֶ֣יךָ כָל־חָֽי׃

Transliteration

And 'al-tāḇô' in mišpāṭ with 'aḇdeḵā; kî not-yiṣdaq before p̄āneḵā all-ḥāy.

Grammar Details

• *we'al*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *tāḇô'*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular, jussive - may you enter/come
• *ḇemišpāṭ*: preposition bet + noun, masculine, singular - in judgment
• *'eṯ-'aḇdeḵā*: direct object marker + noun, masculine, singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - with your servant
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lō'-yiṣdaq*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will not be justified/righteous
• *lep̄āneḵā*: preposition lamed + noun, plural, construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - before your face
• *kol-ḥāy*: noun, masculine, singular, construct + adjective, masculine, singular - all living

Word Meanings

• *'al-tāḇô'*: do not enter/do not come/do not bring
• *mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/legal case
• *'aḇdeḵā*: your servant/your slave
• *yiṣdaq*: be justified/be righteous/be declared right
• *lep̄āneḵā*: before your face/in your presence/before you
• *kol-ḥāy*: all living/every living being/anyone alive

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
• Rom 3:20 : 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.
• Job 14:3 : 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
• Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 4:17 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
• Gal 2:16 : 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.
• 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• Job 9:2-3 : 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
• Exod 34:7 : 7 Keeping mercy 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, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
• 1 Kgs 8:46 : 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 captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;