372 Verf. An expofition upon the Bookof J O B. Chap.3, rank conceive and bring forth in the day of their molt preffing fears,whenanguifh and forrow take hold of them, as travel upon a womanwith child, and they cannot efcape. Thus I have given you the fum of thofe apprehenfions which are offered, for the making up of this Expofition; namely,that the word is here to be taken for that mighty fifh Leviathan; and that, either in refped of thofe who make it their bufinefs , and goout purpofcly to catch Leviathan , or thofe whounawares are ready to be catcht by Leviathan: The former difappointed of their hopes,and the latter furprized with fears,making a curie their re- fùge, and eating themfelves byexecrations. There is a fourth Opinion which giveth the fence of theft: words quite another way, though it retains the fame Tranilation. For palling by the allufion to fifhing,or'cuftomsof fifhermen, they stake thefe words as a charater or defcription of the extreamelt and vileft ofwicked men ; as if yob Paying, Let them curfe thee that curfe the day, whoare ready to fir up Leviathan, had faid, let the worft or molt wicked among the children of Men curie this night ; And we know,that theworft of men'aremoft for turfing, theycurie deepett; as thebelt of men are'-moil for pirayer,and they pray higheft and holieft. So then,Yeb's mind being today the foreft curie upon this night , thinks or `finds his own fpirit too trait,, hisown heart not large enough to do it ; therefore he cloth (as it were) call inaid from thofe'Mafters of turfing'; Let the molt expert, themolt skiWel iii éuafirrg, fuch'a are 'verit'inoaths and blafpliemies , the very.d=regs and fcum `of men , let them pour out the dregs, the worft, thebittereft of their curies upon that. night. But how (hall we make out this notion , that thevileft ofmen are here dcfcribed ? That we mull confider and open;fùrther, 'to thew the fùbttance and dependance of t Opinion. The worft andwickedest ofmen are conceived to be here' meant in two expreílions. Firft, By them who are faid to curie the day, Let them curfe it nho curfe the day. Secondly, In thole words, Who are'ready to raife up Leviathan. Both thefe are fuppofed as defcriptivc circumlocutions of the molt. wicked and vileft men. How fo ? Firft, They that curfe the day. That which aman hates, he is forward
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