وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ … لِلَّهِ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلْغَنِىُّ ٱلْحَمِيدُ
The verse records an admission, and the same structure was treated at 43/9 in al-Zukhruf: the other side is brought into contradiction by its own answer. I rely on that treatment.
ٱلْغَنِىُّ ٱلْحَمِيد — these two names were treated together at 35/15 in Fāṭir (antumu'l-fuqarāʾu ila'llāhi wa'llāhu huwa'l-ghaniyyu'l-ḥamīd). What was recorded there holds here too: to be free of need could by itself convey a distance; the attribute of praiseworthiness keeps the relation open.