John Trapp on Psalms 107:23

Verſ. 23. They that go down is the Sea in ſhips] Here we have a fourth ſpecimen or inſtance of Gods gracious and wiſe diſpenſations towards men, in their trading or traffiquing by Sea. Theſe are ſaid to go down to Sea, becauſe the banks are above it; but the water is naturally higher then the land, and therefore Saylers obſerve, that their ſhips flye faſter to the ſhore than from it. But what a bold man, ſaith the Poet, was he that fi[illegible: 1 letter]ſt put forth to Sea? Illi robur, & et triplex Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci Commiſit pelage ralem Primus, Hec timuit praetipitem Africum, &c.Harat. Od lib. [illegible: 1 letter].3.

That do buſineſs in great waters] Merchants and Matriners, who fiſh, and find Almug, or Coral, ſaith Kimcht, who do export and import commodities of all ſorts.