Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 20:14

14 ¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed .

This sudden change of the Prophets stile, maketh both Mr. Calvin, and some other good Interpreters, think that these words proceeded from Ieremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion into which the abuses of his Enemies had put him, then as the immediate product of his Spirit at this time. When ever they were spoken, they speak a very extravagant passion to shew us that though Ieremiah was a great man, yet he was but a man, encompassed with infirmities, and subject to like Passions with other men. We find Iob in the like passion, chap. 3.3. These great failures of Gods people stand in Scripture, as Rocks in the Sea appear, to mind Marriners to keep off them, not to run upon.

Marginal references: chap. 15.10.