'Authority' in the Bible

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Surely the king's authority is absolute; no one can say to him, "What are you doing?"

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.

Fools are placed in many positions of authority, while wealthy men sit in lowly positions.