The Pulpit Commentary - Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath . In his vindication of God's justice, Elihu here passes from the case of the righteous ( Job 36:7 ) to that of the "hypocrites," or rather the ungodly. They, he says, "heap up wrath," i.e. "treasure up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath" ( Romans 2:5 ), continually intensify God's anger against them, and, as it were, lay in a store of it, which will one day be outpoured upon them . They cry not when he bindeth them . They do not... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 36:12
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword . Not, necessarily, by a material sword, but by the sword of God's vengeance, which slays in a thousand different manners, piercing through all obstacles, and reaching to the heart and spirit. And they shall die without knowledge. Either without knowing that they are about to die, or in their wilful ignorance of God's intentions in chastising them. read more