82:2-5 Israel's judges were perverting justice. God called them to practice righteous justice. The essence of proper judging was making sure the defenseless got justice. Israel's judges who should have been the wisest of the people were ignorant of the importance of fair judgment and the consequences of unfair judging. Consequently law and order, the foundations of life on the earth, were unstable.
82:6-7 God warned the unjust judges that they would suffer judgment themselves for their injustice.149God had appointed them as "gods"(i.e., individuals with power by God's authority). He had made them His sons in the sense of His representatives on earth. Nevertheless because they had not behaved as God who judges justly, they would die as mere men without honor as God's sons. They would die as all the other Israelites would.
Jesus' accusers charged Him with blasphemy when He claimed to be the Son of God (John 10:34). In replying to their accusation Jesus quoted verse 6 to remind them that God called Israel's judges His sons. His point was that it was not inappropriate for Him to call Himself the Son of God. Jesus, of course, is God's ultimate Judge of all humankind.
