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Lamentations 3:27

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

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Lamentations 3:27 in other translations

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

Lamentations 3:27 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 3:27 in context

  1. 25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
  2. 26It is good that a man should hope
    and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  3. 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
  4. 28Let him sit alone and keep silence,
    because he has laid it on him.
  5. 29Let him put his mouth in the dust,
    if it is so that there may be hope.