Psalm 32:9 - New Revised Standard Version

⁹ Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: Whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Be not like the horse or the mule, which lack understanding, which must have their mouths held firm with bit and bridle, or else they will not come with you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

Common English Bible

⁹ Don’t be like some senseless horse or mule, whose movement must be controlled with a bit and a bridle. Don’t be anything like that!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.

Psalm 32:9 Cross References

Job 30:11

Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Job 41:13

Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like a calf untrained. Bring me back, let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.”

James 3:3

If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies.