Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:27-28

"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him." — Lamentations 3:27-28 (ASV)

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.

When it makes a man get alone, to contemplate and meditate, affliction is already doing him good.