Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 41:11

11. who hath prevented me that I should repay him ? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine .

To wit, with offices or service done for me, by which he hath laid the first obligation upon me, for which I am indebted to him. Who can be before-hand with me in kindnesses, since not onely the Leviathan, but all Men, and, as it follows, all things under Heaven, are mine, made by my hand, and inriched with all their indowments by my favour, without which. O Iob, thou wouldst not have had either reason or speech to use so perversly to reproach my Providence. Having how said and largely proved that Man could not contend with God in power, he now adds, that he cannot do it in justice▪ because God oweth him nothing, nor is any way obliged to him. Which having briefly hinted to prevent an objection, he returns to his former argument the description of the Leviathan.

That I should be ingaged to requite his favours

Created by my power and favour, and wholly in my possession and at my dispose, and therefore cannot possibly prevent me, as was now said.

Marginal references: Rom. 11. 35 Psal. 24. 1. & 50. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 26.