Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 20:17

17 Because he slew me not from the womb: or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be alwayes great with me .

These various expressions do onely let us see to what a tide passion swelled in this good mans heart, and teach us how much need we have to pray to be delivered from our own passions; Ieremiahs leaving these things recorded by himself is one instance of what is brought as a rational argument to prove that holy men wrote the Scriptures by inspiration from God, they would never else have recorded their own gross failings, men commonly writing for their own honour, not to their own defamation.