Psalm 32:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Psalm 32:9 Cross References

Job 30:11

For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, And they have cast off the bridle before me.

Job 35:11

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

James 3:3

Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.