Psalm 32:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Job 41:13

Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like an untrained calf. Bring me back; let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

James 3:3

If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies.