They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Ver. 26. They mount up to the heaven, they go down, &c.] An elegant hypotyposis or description of a storm at sea; like whereunto is that in Virgil,
Tollimur in coelum curvato gurgite, et iidem
Subducta ad manes imos descendimus unda.
Their soul is melted because of trouble ] They are ready to die through fear of death. Juntas understandeth it of extreme vomiting, as if they were casting up their very hearts. Anacharsis for this cause doubted whether he should reckon mariners among the living or the dead. And another said, that any man will go to sea at first I wonder not; but to go a second time thither is little better than madness.