Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 20:18

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my dayes should be consumed with shame? .

These words let us know the Prophets Temptation to these extravagant eruptions of passion, it was the reproach and shame, and affliction which he indured for the faithful discharge of his Ministry, which both lets us see the goodness of God towards those whom he spareth as to these Trials, and what need we have under them to keep a watch upon our own hearts. These Records also of Holy Writ are useful to us if at any time we be overtaken with such errors, to comfort us, in that they are not such spo[illegible: 1 letter]s but have been found in the faces of Gods fairest ones: and to make us charitable towards such as we may see sometimes overborn with the like Temptations.

Marginal references: Job 5.10.