Psalm 37/Notes/Verbal.v. 33.861190
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
In this context, the hiphil verb יַרְשִׁיעֶנּוּ is probably not declarative ("declare guilty, condemn") but causative—"cause to be condemned" (HALOT) or "allow to be condemned" (NET, cf. NIV, NLT, ESV, GNT, NJPS), since YHWH is not the judge in this case, but rather the one protecting the righteous person who has entered into judgment. Alternatively, it could mean that "if men sit in judgment upon the righteous, yet God, the supreme Judge, does not condemn him, but acquits him" (Delitzsch 1996, 286).