If it were true that there were one that could doeth good (Rom 3:12) upon the face of this earth, then indeed that second table of the moral law, commandments 5-10 would have been kept by a fellow human being. There would in deed have been a righteous person (v.10) for whom not an instant of earthly time was spent in uncharitable, unclean or unwise thoughts or motions toward a fellow human.
However, even if there were such a one there would still remain the hurdle of commandments 1-4; not only one’s attitude or behaviour toward fellow creatures but toward the Creator. Such a one would have to be a person that understandeth and seeketh after God (v. 11) throughout all their days. While false religions promote certain human idols into such a position the truth is that there never has been or will be such a person, aside from the Holy One who tabernacled in human flesh but was God manifest in the flesh (1 Tim 3:16).
When we think upon what we would have been without His incarnation and atonement, indeed what we are aside from Him (although believers are forever IN Him), it is mind-boggling. Along with the psalmist we may think What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Ps 8:4). What is man, indeed, but a constantly erupting scandal, born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward (Job 5:7); any newspaper will confirm it. And so we entrust our lives to our Father in heaven who knows us better than we know ourselves, caring deeply for each one of us, leading us to
praise the name of the LORD:
for his name alone is excellent;
his glory is above the earth and heaven
(Ps 148:13).
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