Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 34:13

13. Who hath given him a charge over the earth ? or who hath disposed the whole world?

i. e. Over the Inhabitants of the Earth, to rule them according to his La[illegible: 1+ letters]s, and to give an account to him of it? Who or where is his Superiour that made the World, and then delivered the Government of it to God? There is no such Person. God himself is the sole Creator, the absolute and supream Lord and Governour of all the World, and therefore cannot do unjustly. The reason is partly because all unrighteousness is a transgression of some Law, and God hath no Law to bound him but his own nature and will: partly because the Creator and Lord of the World must needs have all possible Perfections in himself, and amongst others perfect Justice, and must needs be free from all imperfections and obliquities, and therefore from Injustice: and partly because he is of himself all-sufficient and independent upon all other Persons, and able to do and procure whatsoever pleaseth him, and therefore as he hath no inclination, so he hath no temptation, to any unrighteous actions; this being generally the reason of all unrighteous actions in the World, because the Persons who do them either are obliged to do it to grati[illegible: 1+ letters]ie some Superiour Authority who commands them to do it, or else do want or desire something which they cannot justly obtain. For he is a Monster and not a Man, who will take away any thing by injustice or violence which he may have by right.

Or committed, to wit, to him, to be governed by him in the Name and for the use and service of his Superiour Lord to whom he must give an account.

Marginal references: Heb, all of it.