Psalm 32:9

Modern King James Version

Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.

Job 35:11

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

Job 41:13

Who can take off the surface of his skin; who can come to him with his double bridle?

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

James 3:3

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