He sits alone ... —Better, Let him sit alone, and keep silence when He (Jehovah) has laid it (the yoke) upon…

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Wh…

Here he shows the fruit of teachableness; for when God deals severely with His children, they still do not rebel, but even then they willingly subm…

He sitteth alone
Retires from the world, and the men of it, who takes upon him the yoke of Christ; though he is not …

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 the author describes the condition of the one who waits.