But the hypocrites in heart Such as are truly void of that piety which they profess; heap up wrath By their impenitence and obstinacy in all conditions they treasure up God's wrath against themselves; they cry not Unto God for help. They live in the gross neglect of God and of prayer; when he bindeth them Namely, with the cords of affliction expressed Job 36:8, which is mentioned as an aggravation of their wickedness; because even wicked men, if not hardened in their vices, will seek God in a time of affliction. They die in youth They provoke God to cut them off before their time. The Hebrew is literally, Their soul dieth in youth. And their life is among the unclean They die young because they lived among prostitutes, or sodomites, as the word,
קדשׁים, kedeshim, properly signifies: they die by some exemplary stroke of divine vengeance. Yea, and after death their life is among the unclean, the unclean spirits, the devil and his angels, for ever excluded from the New Jerusalem, into which no unclean thing shall enter.