Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Day. The nations of Ethiopia, under the line, curse the sun as their greatest enemy. Strabo xvii. Pliny verse 8.—They also brave the fury of the leviathan or crocodile. Calmet. 40:27 and 41:1. Psalms 73:14. The natives of Tentyra, upon the Nile, were supposed to be a terror to that monster, or they were very courageous in entangling and pursuing it. Seneca q. 4. 2. Pliny viii. 25.—Leviathan. Prot. “their mourning.” De Dieu rejects this interpretation, substituting “and thou, leviathan, rouse up,” and so forth The fathers generally understand the devil to be thus designated. Septuagint “he who is about to seize the great whale,” ( Bible.) or fish, which they also explain of the conflict of Satan with Jesus Christ.” Origen, and so forth