He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord's temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord's temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king's prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

Couriers were sent throughout all of Israel and Judah with letters written by the king and his princes, just as the king had commanded:

Couriers crossed from city to city throughout the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but those people just mocked them and laughed at them.

He also wrote letters to mock Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying against Him:

Just like the national gods of the lands that did not deliver their people from my power, so Hezekiah’s God will not deliver His people from my power.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, "You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us."

Then Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues carried out the decree with all diligence, just as King Darius had sent.

Then I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

O Lord God of Israel, You are [uncompromisingly] just (righteous), for we have been left as survivors, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our guilt, for no one can stand before You because of this.”

Whoever would not come within three days would forfeit his assets and be separated from the community of the returning exiles, just as the high officials and elders had advised.

All the assembly replied in a loud voice: "We will do just as you have said!

However, many people are involved, and it's raining heavily. Furthermore, this is not just a matter of a day or two of work, because many of us have sinned in this.

I responded to them by saying, "The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem."

And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people."

They replied, "We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say." Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise. I also shook my robes, and said, "May God shake out every man from his house and his possessions who does not keep this promise. May he be emptied out and shaken just like this." All the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the people kept their promise.

Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying "Come, let's meet together at Kephirim on the Ono Plain." But they were just trying to do me harm.

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.

So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, just as it is written.”

“You found his heart to be faithful before You,
And You made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite, of the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite—
To give it to his descendants.
And You have fulfilled Your promise,
For You are righteous and just.

“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
You gave them just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

We the priests, the descendants of Levi, and the people cast lots to determine when to bring the wood offering into the Temple of our God, just as our ancestors' families were appointed annually to maintain the altar fire of the LORD our God, as recorded in the Law.

It came about that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load would enter on the sabbath day.

Memucan answered before the king and the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

Esther was still not divulging her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her. Esther continued to do whatever Mordecai said, just as she had done when he was raising her.

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

{And Haman added}, "Esther the Queen did not let [just anyone] come to the banquet that she prepared with the king except me, and I am also invited tomorrow to her [banquet] with the king.

So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

Then said the king unto Haman, Haste, take the apparel and the horse, just as thou hast said, and do even so unto Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting in the kings gate, - do not let fail a thing, of all which thou hast spoken!

Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king."

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the house of wine drinking, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, Haman’s face was covered.

The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.

Therefore, because of the account found in this letter and what they had faced in this regard and what had happened to them, the Jews established as binding on themselves, their descendants, and all who joined their company that they should observe these two days without fail, just as written and at the appropriate time on an annual basis.

to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."

[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward."

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?

Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?

Whom, if I was just, I shall not answer; I will make supplication to my judge.

If I shall be just, my mouth shall condemn me: I am blameless, and he will declare me perverse.

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

“I am a joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

“Does the ear not put words to the test,
Just as the palate tastes its food [distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable]?

Just as ye know, I too, know, I, fall not short, of you.

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

“Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard]
And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

I wish that someone might arbitrate
between a man and God
just as a man pleads for his friend.

And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.

Did it please to the Almighty that thou wilt be just? and if gain if thou wilt perfect thy ways?

Will he acquit you just because you fear him, and render a verdict on your behalf?

The just shall see and shall be glad: and the innocent shall deride at them.

He that is just shall enter disputation with him, and my judge shall deliver me forever.

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

He may prepare it, but the just will wear it
And the innocent will divide the silver.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

“I assure you, the men of my tent have said,
‘Who can find one [in need] who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

And these three men will cease from answering Job, for he is just in his eyes.

But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Job, that he called himself just before God.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

“Look, let me answer you, in this you are not right or just;
For God is greater and far superior to man.

For Job said, I was just: and God removed my judgment

Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?

"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than God?'

If thou wert just, what wilt thou give to him? or what shall he take from thy hand?

He will not take off his eyes from the just: and with kings upon the throne, and he will seat them for glory, and they shall be exalted.

Just listen to His thunderous voice
and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.

For this, the unjust shall not rise up in judgment, and the sinful in the assembly of the just

For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.

Offer righteous sacrifices;
Trust [confidently] in the Lord.

For thou wilt bless the just, O Jehovah: thou wilt surround him with favor as a shield

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

God is a just judge; he is angry throughout the day.

For You have maintained my just cause;
You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

But the Lord rules forever; he reigns in a just manner.

He will judge the world righteously and make just decisions for the people.

If the pillars shall be pulled down, what did the just one?

Jehovah will try the just one: and the unjust and him loving violence, his soul hated.

Certainly the Lord is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.

There they feared a fear: for God is in the generation of the just one.