Because of thy raging against me, and for that thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
James 3:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about. American Standard Version (1901) Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. Common English Bible When we bridle horses and put bits in their mouths to lead them wherever we want, we can control their whole bodies. Catholic Public Domain Version For so we put bridles into the mouths of horses, in order to submit them to our will, and so we turn their whole body around. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. |
Because of thy raging against me, and for that thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?
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.
I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
Because of thy raging against me, and for that thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
Behold, the ships also, though they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.