Lamentations 3:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 have been afflicted; That I might learn thy statutes.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us an heart of wisdom.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, And teachest out of thy law;

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.