Chap, 3 do Expofition upon theBookof J O B. . Verf. 8. 377 The part and poflures ofa móurner to the life,Go to David andfeign thyfelf to be a mourner, and as a womanthat had a long time mourn - edfor the dead. And it is obferved to this day in many places (and as I have been informed frequently,in Ireland)that not only friends and neighbours are called to lament at the funeral of their friends & neighbours, but many others no way related,fcarce ever known to the perfondeceafed,\ who.come profeffedly to ftrain for tears, and make lamentable dut -cryes over the dead.. To fuch a cuftom or proftflion job here alluding, faith, .Let them curfe it who curfé the-day. - Ifit be objet` ed, that this Text fpeaks offuch as curie the day., andnot of fuch as mourn upon or bemoan the day ; that is ealily removed,becaufe upon thole days of mourning they were wont to mix execrations with their lamentations, & curies with their tears; crying out, Oh the day ! alas for the day! oh that ever fuch a day camel In Ezell, 3o. a. the Lord faith, Son ofman, prophetic and fay, Thusfaith the Lord G9d, Howl ye, wo worth the day. Thefe did curie the clay; and fuch were hired in that fence to curie the day. As Balaam (who loved the wages of unrighteoufuefs) was hired to eurfe the people of God, Numb.22. So then the curling here meant was a doleful with, that not the day had been, or that fuch things had not happened upon thatday:And fo thefe words, Let them curfe it who eurfe the day, who are ready to raife up their mourning, are only a circumlocution desèribing thole mercenary curlers ofmourners : As ifjob had in more words faid thus s Let this night be curled in as high a (train, and mourned over with is enlarged forrows, as the Art and Invention of thofe, whole trade is curling, and who have tears at command; ever did or canput forth, when hired on purpofe to mourn over the faddefi fpec`Ia Iles, andmolt calamitous events. Now. this being taken for a ground-work, that in thofe times and Countries men and women were hired to mourn, and that an Art ofmourningwas then prof,eft ; The difficulties that are in theText oppofing this, are,further to be examined Fothere Hill it feemeth doub1tfuh, how this word Leviathan can fall in with fuch an Interpretation, or be applyed to thofe hifedand profeffed mourners.Towards the clearing of which,I {hall a littleopen three words. The firft is [ Gnatidim J who are ready : which fignifies -a . ="1'7, prepared and meditated alive readinefs ; as we find in two C c c Ì cxts
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