3Z? Verf. 8.. An Expofition upon the Tookof J OB. Chap.3, thofe who are moft skilful. in the_dialed or .Ianguage of execra-. tions , even with fuck a curfe as thofe Sea-hunters the fifhermen . ufe to pour forth upon the day , when it breaks too foon for their. profit, fo that, they are hindered in catchingof Leviathan or the Whale. There is a Proverbamongft us; If. you fwear or curfe you will catch no fifh : And it feems there were wont to fwear and curie when they could not catch. And hence it was a Proverb in other. Countries, when they would let out an enormious fwearer, or one . given to prophane cuxfing,they aid, He fceareth,or he curfeth like a fifherman : A generation of men whom that age.hadbranded on . the tongue, whoCe mouths were full of curfings,and:their ordina ry, difcourfe as much oaths as words. But againfi this Expofition experience is objeaed,that the nat- al time of tithing for the Whale is in the day, not in.the night. If ithe,fo,then the groundofthis opinion is quite overthrown. That . force kind of fithing is a night- work., the words and practice of Peter before mentioned,are proofenough:Whether Whale-fifhing wereexercifed in the night , I (hall not much contend to prove, feeing I approve but little of that interpretation which. is bot-. tom'd and built upon it. Befides,I find others,who flicking to this Tranflation (theflir- ring of Leviathan) do yet wave and pars by this conceit ofnight- fithing and they lay, that the curie here is not to be.referred to. their rage againfi the light, becaufe it brings theday ; but to the . day,beçaufe it brought them to fuccefs,So that day is not oppofed . to night, but a good or fuccefful day to a bador fucceflefs day of fifhing.An.d then the fence is to this etfea,.that job calls for fuch a çurfè upon his day,as prophane filhermen, who attempt.to catch the Whale, ufually fpend upon that unhappy day, wherein they. lofe theitlábour, and after alltheir hazard and colt come home. ennptyo, And when it is objefted againfi this opinion ; W.h.y doth job mentionLeviathan or the Whale , if that be his meaning to al-: hide, unto the finful páÇìon of difapppinted fithermen ; for vain, men in that employment are is apt to curie and be paflionate when. t'hey.mifs of their intendments in labouring to catch any,kind of P this anfwer,maybe given in two things. Fir(f,This bufincfa af,tifh.ülg for.the Whale is a, buGnefsof.great chargeand greater. danger Pifratore ant eoauta nwledi- cst{ior, ,,. Pifrdt°ores diei anoledicunt, in cduó; in non ac- ci?!t. bonus pqart-#;
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