Declining Judgment

Et non intres in judicium cum servo tuo: quia non justificabitur in conspectu tuo omnis vivens. Quid enim sepi est, si judicare nos secundum se Deus velit, si ad comparationem sui vitae nostrae innocentiam postulabit. Justificari autem in conspectu Dei quis viventium potest? Cui ira, cui dolor, cui cupiditas, cui ignoratio, cui oblivio, cui caus, cui necessitas vel per naturam corporis, vel per motum animae semper fluctuantis admixta sit: cui et quotidie gravissimus hostis immineat, diabolus videlicet animae viri fidelis insidians, eamque ad interitum persequens? Hanc enim esse causam docet, qua nemo vivens justificari in conspectu Dei possit. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis,Tractatus super Psalmos, Tractatus in Psalmum CXLII Source: Migne PL 9 839

And do not enter into judgement with your servant, because no one living shall be justified in your sight. 1 How can there be hope, if God wishes to judge us according to Himself, if by the measure of innocence He enquires into our lives? Who among the living will be justified in the sight of God? Of whom is anger, and offence, and cupidity and ignorance and forgetfulness and error, and who in either the necessities of the body or the tribulations of the soul is ever caught up in fluctuations, and whom every day the most fearful enemy threatens. On account of this he teaches that no one living can be justified in the sight of God. Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 142 1 Ps 142.2