And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline:
Parallel translations
- WEB It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
- KJV It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
- BSB It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
- NKJV It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.
- NASB It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.
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Quick answer
It is good to learn submission and discipline early in life. Bearing the 'yoke' of hardship in youth shapes character.
Overview
Continuing the chapter's turn toward hope, the poet commends accepting God's discipline rather than resisting it. A yoke borne while young teaches patience and humility before God. Such schooling in suffering prepares the heart to trust God, a posture Jesus invites when He says His own yoke is easy and His burden light (Matt. 11:29-30).
Cross-references & the web
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- Eccl 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
- Matt 11:29–30Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
- Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
- Heb 12:5–12and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
- Ps 90:12So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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