Cursed be the day, &c.— See the note on Jeremiah 20:7. These verses are so like those in Job 3:3 that they seem to have been borrowed thence. The sentiments are the same, and the expressions not greatly dissimilar. The prophet, indeed, has filled up the ellipses, smoothed the abrupt style of Job, and extended his short distich into two distichs or pairs of verses, in which he himself much abounds. Hence we find that the imprecation of the prophet contains more of complaint than indignation: it is indeed milder, softer, more dolorous, and more especially adapted to excite pity; in which this prophet's peculiar excellence undoubtedly consists: whereas Job does not so much raise pity as excite terror. This lamentation is written in poetical figures, like the ancient funeral songs; in which every circumstance proper to raise the passions is mentioned; which therefore are not to be considered as so many expressions of indignation and malice, but rather of mourning and sorrow. See Bishop Lowth's 14th Prelection.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 20:14
Jeremiah 20:14-15
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.