Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 5:8

8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor , and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth , and there be higher than they .

Here is an account of another vanity, and a soveraign Antidote against it.

As if it were inconsistent with God's Wisdom, and Justice, and Truth, to suffer such disorders, or a just cause for any Man to throw off that fear and service of God, which I have now commended to thee.

The most High God who is infinitely above the greatest of men, and therefore, if he saw meet, could crush them in an instant.

Not like an idle spectatour, but like a Judge, who diligently observes and records all these miscarriages, and will so effectually punish them, that neither they shall have any cause of triumph in their former successes, nor good men to be grieved at the remembrance of them.

Either 1. the high and holy Angels, who are employed by God in the Government of Kings and Kingdoms, as we read in the Book of Daniel, and elsewhere, and for the defence of God's People, Psal. 34. 7. & 91. 11. Heb. 1. 14. Or, 2. God: and so it is an Emphatical repetition of the same thing, which is frequent in Scripture, there is an higher than they. Or, as the words are by others fitly rendred, the most High (for Plural words are oft understood of God singularly) is above them, and therefore can controul them, and will certainly call them to an account.

Marginal references: Heb. at the will, or, purpose.