Justice and Judgment

The words justice and judgment are used frequently in the Bible.  To my way of thinking, justice connotes rule of law {freedom}, and judgment applies to a monarchy or to despotism {slavery}.

We read the King James Bible and we have compared it’s content to words set out in a dozen or so newer Bible versions.  The words justice and judgment are often switched in modern Bible translations.

The words justice and judgment are at opposite ends of the spectrum of human existence.  Switching them alters the message completely and one of the two presentations is WRONG.  We are talking about God’s Word here and infallibility comes to mind.

Bible scholars conversant with many ancient languages and drawn from many countries, collaborated at great lengths to come to an agreement on the words in the King James Bible.  I wish that modern scholars had not taken the flock in directions opposite to those set out five hundred years ago.  There are already too many forks in the road of life.