Job 36:13 - Exposition

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 cry to him, they do not deprecate his anger, when they first find themselves bound with the "cords of affliction" ( Job 36:8 ), but allow his wrath to increase and accumulate.