Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Read in context →Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
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dikaióō · dik-ah-yo'-o
to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent
Strong's KJV usage: :--free, justify(-ier), be righteous.
Strong's first: Matthew 11:19Strong's last: James 2:25
Open full G1344 profile →tsâdaq · tsaw-dak'
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Strong's KJV usage: cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Strong's first: Job 11:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:52
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Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
But wisdom is justified of all her children.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
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JUST'IFY, verb transitive [Latin justus, just, and facio, to make.]
1. To prove or show to be just, or conformable to law, right, justice, propriety or duty; to defend or maintain; to vindicate as right. We cannot justify disobedience or ingratitude to our Maker. We cannot justify insult or incivility to our fellow men. Intemperance, lewdness, profaneness and dueling are in no case to be justified.
2. In theology, to pardon and clear from guilt; to absolve or acquit from guilt and merited punishment, and to accept as righteous on account of the merits of the Savior, or by the application of Christ's atonement to the offender.
3. To cause another to appear comparatively righteous, or less guilty than one's self. Ezekiel 16:1.
4. To judge rightly of.
Wisdom is justified by her children. Matthew 11:1.
5. To accept as just and treat with favor. James 2:1.
JUST'IFY, verb intransitive In printing, to agree; to suit; to conform exactly; to form an even surface or true line with something else. Types of different sizes will not justify with each other.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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