Psalm 32:9

Modern English Version

Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, which must be restrained with bit and bridle, or they will not come near you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

Because He has loosed my bowstring and afflicted me, they have cast off the bridle before me.

Job 35:11

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

Job 41:13

Who can remove his outer garment? Or who can approach him with a double bridle?

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim pleading: “You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf; turn me back and I will be turned, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

James 3:3

See how we put bits in the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and we control their whole bodies.