It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Lord, and teach from Your law,
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in these days and years”;
It is good that a man should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;