The Relationship between Divine Justice and Wisdom

When speaking of Divine Wisdom, it was explained that one of the meanings of wisdom was refraining from performing evil and bad deeds. This sense of wisdom encompasses justice, for justice is good and injustice evil. In this light, the attribute of justice may be considered as one of the branches of the attribute of wisdom.

As such, we may reason for Divine Justice along the following lines. Innate human reason Judges that observing justice is good under all circumstances and perpetrating injustice is evil under any circumstance. As God is wise-and wisdom is to refrain from what is evil and bad-reason concludes that God is just and that he necessarily avoids all injustice.

The assumption of injustice on the pan of God involves at least one of these three absurd possibilities.

• God is unjust on account of His ignorance. Obviously, one of the main causes of injustice among humankind is ignorance. Yet, ignorance is necessarily negated of God-for it is an imperfection-and therefore, God cannot be unjust on account of ignorance. 
• God is unjust on account of His need. One of the other causes for the occurrence of injustice among humankind is need. A tyrant, for instance, needs to provide for an army and so he imposes unbearable taxes on people, which is an unjust behavior. Yet. God is absolutely self-sufficient and free of all need. As such. He cannot be unjust on account of being in need.
• God is unjust on account of an imperfection. Another principal cause of injustice consists of the imperfections inherent in created being. Moral defects, for instance, can compel one to act unjustly. Yet, it has already been demonstrated that God is absolutely perfect. And so He cannot be unjust on account of an imperfection. As all the causes resulting in injustice are absent in God, God is necessarily just.