Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 25:2

2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter .

It is agreeable to the Nature, and highly conducing to the Honour of God, because it is a Testimony of his infinite Wisdom and Knowledg, of his absolute Power and Soveraignty, and of his other incomprehensible Perfections.

To keep his counsels, and the reasons of his actions in his own Breast, that he needs not to impart them to any other for their advice and assistance, as being self-sufficient both for the contrivance and execution of whatsoever pleaseth him, and accountable to none for any of his matters.

But Kings must not affect to be like God in this respect, because they are Creatures, and therefore ignorant and insufficient, and accountable to an higher Authority.

In the conduct of their great affairs, not to lean to their own understandings, nor to be wedded to their own wills, but to communicate their counsels to others, that so they may search and find out the true and right way, and to be ready to give a satisfactory account of the Justice and reasonableness of them as occasion shall require.

Marginal references: Deut. 29. 29. Rom. 11. 33.