Lamentations 3:27

New Century Version

It is good for someone to work hard while he is young.

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It was good for me to suffer so I would learn your demands.

Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.

Lord, those you correct are happy; you teach them from your law.

Remember your Creator while you are young, before the days of trouble come and the years when you say, “I find no pleasure in them.”

It is good to wait quietly for the Lord to save.

He should sit alone and be quiet; the Lord has given him hard work to do.