Psalm 32:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.

Cross References

Job 30:11

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

Job 35:11

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

Job 41:13

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

Proverbs 26:3

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

Jeremiah 31:18

I have heard Ephraim bemoaning, ‘Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

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

James 3:3

If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.