Lamentations 3:27
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
American King James Version (AKJV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
American Standard Version (ASV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
Webster's Revision
It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
World English Bible
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
English Revised Version (ERV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Clarke's Lamentations 3:27 Bible Commentary
That he bear the yoke in his youth - Early habits, when good, are invaluable. Early discipline is equally so. He who has not got under wholesome restraint in youth will never make a useful man, a good man, nor a happy man.
Barnes's Lamentations 3:27 Bible Commentary
The yoke - Or, a "yoke." By bearing a yoke in his youth, i. e. being called upon to suffer in early age, a man learns betimes the lesson of silent endurance, and so finds it more easy to be calm and patient in later years.
Wesley's Lamentations 3:27 Bible Commentary
3:27 Bear - Quietly and patiently to bear what afflictions God will please to lay upon us. And if God tame us when young, by his word or by his rod, it is an unspeakable advantage.
