What Does Job 36:13 Mean?
But the soiled in heart set up burning anger; they do not cry out when he binds them.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.THE KEY
Anger is set within the heart even as the person remains bound and silent.
THE MEANING
When you are under restraint, anger may be set within you while your voice remains silent. The verse holds both together without mistaking silence for freedom: the binding is still there even when no cry rises.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being bound means I am already asking to be released.
THE ROOT
יָשִׂימוּ
yāśîmû
GROWS FROM
שים
set, place, put
“set up” in this verse is yāśîmû. The verb translated “heap up” is יָשִׂימוּ (yāśîmû, they set or place), and its object is אַף (ʾaph, anger or heat; also nostril). The KJV image of accumulation remains, while the Hebrew also pictures anger being set in place inside the heart.
ALSO GROWS
śîm: set, place
שִׂים
This is the root’s basic action, the same action carried by the verb in the verse.
śām: he set, he placed
שָׂם
This form keeps the focus on placing something somewhere, here anger within the heart.
אֲסָרָם
ʾasāram
GROWS FROM
אסר
bind, restrain, imprison
“binds” in this verse is ʾasāram. The verb for binding and the word for “prisoner” grow from the same root. The verse places restraint outside beside anger within, while no cry rises.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāsîr: prisoner
אָסִיר
The bound condition becomes a name for the person held.
ʾasûrîm: bound ones, prisoners
אֲסוּרִים
This plural form shares the binding root and echoes the people described in the verse.
חַנְפֵי
ḥanp̄ê
GROWS FROM
חנף
be profane, godless, or polluted
“soiled” in this verse is ḥanp̄ê. The word rendered “hypocrites” also carries the sense “profane” or “godless,” and the phrase locates that condition in the heart. Its root points to an inward condition, not only an outward performance.
ALSO GROWS
ḥānēp̄: profane, godless
חָנֵף
This form names the inward condition expressed by the people in the verse.
ḥănuppāh: profanation, pollution
חֲנֻפָּה
The related noun shows the root’s wider sense of what has become profaned.
THE PATTERN
The bound can cry from distress and be met with hearing, deliverance, or release.
Then they cry out to the LORD in their narrowness, and he brings them out of their narrow places.The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.And suddenly there came a great shaking, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and at once all the doors were opened, and every one's bonds were untied.THE THREAD
Who makes judgment for the pressed, who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD loosens the bound.The Hebrew word for “prisoners,” אֲסוּרִים (ʾasûrîm, bound ones), shares the root אסר (ʾ-s-r, bind) with Job’s “bindeth.” Job names the bound who hold anger in silence; this verse names the bound as people the LORD releases.
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