Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
ASV
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
WEB
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
YLT
Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC