Chap. 3. An Expofition upon thé Bookof J OB. Vert. 8. 367 JOB 3. 8, 9. Let them catrfe it that (wife the day,who are ready to rail up their mourning. Let the Stars of the twilight thereof be dark, let it loot¿ for light,but have none, neither let it fec the dawning of the day. N the former Verfes Job himfelf curfeth the night ; in this he enviteth others to curie it ; that his furrowmight appear not . only ferious; but folemn; he calleth for thole who made mourning their profeffion,and to weep for and witleothers,their trade : filch asufed to rife early, and awaken their companions to come away and joyn in prepared and ftudied lamentation. This I take to be the fum and fence of there words, which yet in the letter are very full of difficulty,and have divided Interpreters exceedingly.' fhall briefly touch the moft of thole fences given , and then more fully prefent you with what I apprehend as fuitable to this Text, and confonant unto Truth. Firft,Take a brief of the divers readings of this Verfe,Let them curfe it that curfe the day, who are ready to raife up their mourning : So we in our Bibles. The Vulgar and the Septuagint read it thus Let them curfe it that curfe the day, who are ready to raifeup Leviat-han. Another renders the latter claufe , Whoareready to raife up the Dragon. Theodot. Mr. Broughton's Tranflation runs thus ; May they curfe it who do curfe the day, who will hunt Leviathan. Junius and 2remelius have a Tranflation different from all there, I would they had curled thee that enlighten the day, who are ready to fir up Leviathan, or the Whale. That which all other Interpre- ters I have met with call curlingofthe day , they call enlightening the day. You fee there is much variety about the rendering of theme words but of the Hebrew. And there is as muchdiverlityof Opi- nion grounded thereupon. Firft, Someapprehend that yob inthis Verfe alludes to the cu- ftom of a certain people in Ethiopia , called the Atlantes fre- quently
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