Lamentations 3:27
New International Version
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

New Living Translation
And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline:

English Standard Version
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Berean Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

King James Bible
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

New King James Version
It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

New American Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

NASB 1995
It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

NASB 1977
It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

Amplified Bible
It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke [of godly discipline] in his youth.

Christian Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

American Standard Version
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
It is good for a man when he will take up your yoke in his youth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

Contemporary English Version
When we are young, it is good to struggle hard

Douay-Rheims Bible
Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

English Revised Version
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is good for people to endure burdens when they're young.

Good News Translation
And it is best to learn this patience in our youth.

International Standard Version
It is good when a young man carries the yoke of discipline in his youth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
It is good for a man that he bear The yoke in his youth.

Literal Standard Version
[It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.

Majority Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

New American Bible
It is good for a person, when young, to bear the yoke,

NET Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

New Revised Standard Version
It is good for one to bear the yoke in youth,

New Heart English Bible
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke while he is young.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

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Context
Jeremiah's Hope
26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young. 28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.…

Cross References
Lamentations 3:26
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.


Treasury of Scripture

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.

bear

Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

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(27) Bear the yoke in his youth.--The words have been pressed "with a strange literalism" in favour of the view that the Lamentations were written in the youth of Jeremiah and on the death of Josiah. It may fairly be contended, on the other hand, that the tone of the maxim is that of one who looks back from the experience of age on the passionate complaints of his earlier years (Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 20:7-18).

Verse 27. - In his youth. The thought of this verse reminds us of Psalm 119:71. Youth is mentioned as the time when it is easier to adapt one's self to circumstances, and when discipline is most readily accepted. The words do not prove that the writer is young, any more than vers. 9 and 100 of Psalm 119. prove that the psalmist was an aged man (against this view, see vers. 84-87). There is no occasion, therefore, for the textual alteration (for as such I cannot help regarding it), "from his youth," found in some Hebrew manuscripts in Theodotion, in the Aldine edition of the Septuagint, and in the Vulgate. The reading was probably dictated by the unconscious endeavour to prop up the theory of Jeremiah's authorship. The scribes and translators remembered, inopportunely, that the trials of Jeremiah began in early manhood.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
It is good
ט֣וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

for a man
לַגֶּ֔בֶר (lag·ge·ḇer)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

to bear
יִשָּׂ֥א (yiś·śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

the yoke
עֹ֖ל (‘ōl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5923: A yoke

while he is still young.
בִּנְעוּרָֽיו׃ (bin·‘ū·rāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons


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