Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:27

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth .

Good here must be expounded in the same sense as in the foregoing verse. It is not pleasant, but it is profitable, it is honourable, what becomes us, and is our duty, quietly and patiently to bear what afflictions God will please to lay upon us, to restrain our wild and wanton spirits when they are most prone to be too brisk and lascivious. Some by yoke understand the Law of God, called a yoke (because indeed it is so to flesh and blood) Matth. 11.29. It is not so easie to bend a neck stiffened with Age, or change an heart made hard by Custom. Solomon bids us to train up one in their youth in the way we would have them to walk; and whether God will tame us when young, by his Word or by his Rod, it is of advantage to a man: It is also laudable, and what becomes a man, early to bear the yoke of Gods Law, or to bear afflictive Providences, to have his heart betimes humbled to the Will and feet of God.