Job 34:13

Who entrusted ¹  to him the earth? And who put him over ²  the whole world?

1Ch 29:11; Job 36:23; Job 38:4-41; Job 40:8-11; Pr 8:23-30; Isa 40:13,14; Da 4:35; Ro 11:34-36

¹ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit; to appoint; to number.” Here it means “to entrust” for care and governing. The implication would be that there would be someone higher than God – which is what Elihu is repudiating by the rhetorical question. No one entrusted God with this.

² tn The preposition is implied from the first half of the verse.