Psalm 32:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with 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 cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

Job 35:11

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

Job 41:13

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

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 heard Ephraim bemoaning, ‘Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

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

James 3:3

If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.