Psalm 32:9

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

Cross References

Job 30:11

For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, And they have cast off the bridle before me.

Job 35:11

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?

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 surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

James 3:3

Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.