Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

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20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)

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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.

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me

And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

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16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

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.

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

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10 If we claim we have not sinned,(A) we make him out to be a liar(B) and his word is not in us.(C)

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10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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46 “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin(A)—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive(B) to their own lands, far away or near;

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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;

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maintaining love to thousands,(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(D)

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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.

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“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)
Though they wished to dispute with him,(B)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(C)

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I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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