Strong's numbers
צָדַק H6663
tsâdaq
tsaw-dak'
a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense); cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be turn to) righteous(-ness).
Brown–Driver–Briggs
[צָדֵק, צָדֹק] vb. denom. be just, righteous
Qal
1 have a just cause, be in the right
2 be justified
3 be just
4 be just, righteous
Niph. the holy place shall be put right
Pi. justify
Hiph.
1 do justice
2 declare righteous, justify
3 justify, vindicate the cause of, save
4 make righteous, turn to righteousness
Hithp. how shall we justify ourselves
From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.
40 occurrences
Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.
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Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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Job 13:18
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
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Job 32:2
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.
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Job 33:12
Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.