Lexicon :: Strong's G1342 - dikaios

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would you destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned this time,” he said to them. “The LORD is the righteous one, and I and my people are the guilty ones.

“But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

“Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.

“You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure,[fn] and an honest liquid measure;[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Who has counted the dust of Jacob

or numbered even one-fourth of Israel?

Let me die the death of the upright;

let the end of my life be like theirs.

“And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

“If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.

“You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

The Rock ​— ​his work is perfect;

all his ways are just.

A faithful God, without bias,

he is righteous and true.

Let them tell the righteous acts of the LORD,

the righteous deeds of his villagers in Israel,

with the voices of the singers at the watering places.[fn]

Then the LORD’s people went down to the city gates.

There is no one holy like the LORD.

There is no one besides you!

And there is no rock like our God.

He guards the steps[fn] of his faithful ones,

but the wicked perish in darkness,

for a person does not prevail by his own strength.

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

“How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ”

“The LORD will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

may you hear in heaven and act.

May you judge your servants,

condemning the wicked man by bringing

what he has done on his own head

and providing justice for the righteous

by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

The next morning when he went out and stood at the gate, he said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all these?

may you hear in heaven and act.

May you judge your servants,

condemning the wicked man by bringing

what he has done on his own head

and providing justice for the righteous

by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

LORD God of Israel, you are righteous, for we survive as a remnant today. Here we are before you with our guilt, though no one can stand in your presence because of this.

You found his heart faithful in your sight,

and made a covenant with him

to give the land of the Canaanites,

Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites,

Jebusites, and Girgashites —

to give it to his descendants.

You have fulfilled your promise,

for you are righteous.

You are righteous concerning all that has happened to us,

because you have acted faithfully,

while we have acted wickedly.

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

The hungry consume his harvest,

even taking it out of the thorns.[fn]

The thirsty[fn] pant for his children’s wealth.

Reconsider; don’t be unjust.

Reconsider; my righteousness is still the issue.

Does God pervert justice?

Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,

but how can a person be justified before God?

Even if I were in the right, I could not answer.

I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

When catastrophe[fn] brings sudden death,

he mocks the despair of the innocent.

“If I am wicked, woe to me!

And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.

I am filled with shame

and have drunk deeply of[fn] my affliction.

Should this abundance of words go unanswered

and such a talker[fn] be acquitted?

I am a laughingstock to my[fn] friends,

by calling on God, who answers me.[fn]

The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

Now then, I have prepared my case;

I know that I am right.

What is a mere human, that he should be pure,

or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent are roused against the godless.

The righteous see this and rejoice;

the innocent mock them, saying,

They push the needy off the road;

the poor of the land are forced into hiding.