Lamentations 3:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke [of divine disciplinary dealings] in his youth.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

It’s good for a man to carry a yoke in his youth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Lamentations 3:27 Cross References

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O Lord, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him;