Psalm 32:9

A Conservative Version

Become 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 to thee.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Job 35:11

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

James 3:3

Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

Job 30:11

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

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?