'Justified' in the Bible

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What have you encountered or seen [in us or our customs], that you have done this [unjust] thing?”

“The request of the daughters of Zelophehad is justified. You shall certainly give them a possession as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

“Behold now, I have prepared my case;I know that I will be vindicated.

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became indignant. His indignation was kindled and burned and he became upset with Job because he justified himself rather than God [and even expressed doubts about God’s character].

“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?

Therefore the wicked will not stand [unpunished] in the judgment,Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Against You, You only, have I sinnedAnd done that which is evil in Your sight,So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence]And faultless in Your judgment.

Add [unforgiven] iniquity to their iniquity [in Your book],And may they not come into Your righteousness.

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,For in Your sight no man living is righteous or justified.

All the nations have gathered togetherSo that the peoples may be assembled.Who among them (the idolaters) can predict this [that Judah would return from captivity]And proclaim to us the former events?Let them provide their witnesses so that they may be justified,Or let them hear and say [in acknowledgement], “It is the truth.”

“Remind Me [of your merits with a thorough report], let us plead and argue our case together;State your position, that you may be proved right.

“In the Lord all the offspring of IsraelWill be justified (declared free of guilt) and will glory [in God].”

But I will leave a few [survivors] who will escape the sword, the famine, and the virulent disease, that they may confess all their repulsive (idolatrous) acts among the nations where they go, and may know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”