Psalm 32:9

King James 2000

Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also cast off restraint before me.

Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 41:13

Who can remove the face of his garment? or who can approach him with a double bridle?

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

James 3:3

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.