In these three verses, each beginning in the Hebrew with the word "good," we have, first, the fundamental idea that Yahweh Himself is good. If He i…

Bear the yoke in his youth. — The words have been pressed “with a strange literalism” in favor of the view that …

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.…

This verse allows for two meanings; for the word yoke may be explained as signifying teaching or the scourges of God. Indeed, we undertake or bear …

[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth .
Either the yoke of the commandments, as the Targum; or o…

Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…

Here he shows the divine mercy through the expectation of future benefits.