Psalm 32:9

Legacy Standard Bible

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose harness are bit and bridle to control them, Otherwise they will not come near you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, They have thrust aside their bridle before me.

Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Job 41:13

“Who can strip off its outer armor? Who can come with its doubled bridle?

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 31:18

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Cause me to return that I may return, For You are Yahweh my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are ignorant fools, They know Me not; They are simpleminded children And have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”

James 3:3

Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.