Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 3:27

"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth." — Lamentations 3:27 (ASV)

Bear the yoke in his youth. — The words have been pressed “with a strange literalism” in favor of the view that the Lamentations were written in the youth of Jeremiah and on the death of Josiah. It may fairly be contended, on the other hand, that the tone of the maxim is that of one who looks back from the experience of age on the passionate complaints of his earlier years (Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 20:7–18).