Chap.. 3, Ari Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. Vert, b. danger ; and becaufe greatelt loffes raife greatelt pallions, and the higher our difappointwents are,the higher. is our language: there- fore lob, who intended here the higheft and greatelt curfe, wither it parallel With that, which the greatelt curfèrs belch forth, when (as they pretend)they have greatelt occafon,yea(as.they call rea- fon) reafon to curfe : And who íhould theíè bebut ignorant or idolatrous fifhermen,and they at fuch a pinch,-when they have loft the hope of their greateft gain.As ifLb had fäid,Let as big a curfe fall upon that night,as ever fell from themouths oft hole prophane fifhers , not only when they have been fucceflefs in ithing for a Herring or a Sprat , but when after. all their pains and colt they cannot take Leviathan. Micha's mother curled when the eleven hundred ¡heckles of filver were flohen from her, Judg. t 7.1,2. To lofe what we hope for, vexes corrupt natureas much as the lots of what we.have. They who have not treafure in I-¡eaven,and to whom godlinefs it not more the earthly gain , cannot but be enraged when the hopeof their gain it gone upon the Earth. Secondly, We may íày, he nameth the Leviathan by a Synech- doche,one principal for all,or for any ; the chiefelt of a kind is put for all ofa kind:and then it is appliable to thofe Sea-hunters,what- foever game theypurfue. I thall touch oneway more of illultra- ting the opinionof thofe who take Leviathan in this Text for the Whale.Wemay conceiveit thus, that job doth not here allude to ithing fortheWhale , and fo to that liicceflefs tithing which pro- vokes to curfing.But take it in the general, the Whaler we know) isa very formidable Mon¡ter to Sea -men and Mariners, the whole Ship, with the lading ofit, and all their lives, being endangered if a Whale ítrikeit. So we may underhand that of Lb, (peaking of Leviathan, Chap.41.25. When he raifeth up himfelf, the mightyare áfraid. Now the Whale being fo formidable and dangerous to Sea-men, they_perceiving the Whale near them, or themfUves at unawares ready to ítir up or raife the Whale, are exceedingly a- fraid ; and as great fear in fome fets them a praying, and caufèth firong prayers, fo fear in others Pets them a curling, and caufeth.. thong curfes.Prophane Marriners,feeing themfelves in fuch immi- nent danger by the approachof the Whale,prefently curfe the day that ever they loofed Anchor, or fet fail from the Harbor, the day that ever they fell within the reach ofthis Sea-monfler, now rea- dy to fink their Veffe.l,and overwhelm them all. Such a curfe.ob withes upon that night, the night of hisconception,as men of this B b b 2. rank 371
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