Psalm 32:9 - Modern English Version

⁹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: Whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Be not like the horse or the mule, which lack understanding, which must have their mouths held firm with bit and bridle, or else they will not come with you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ Don’t be like some senseless horse or mule, whose movement must be controlled with a bit and a bridle. Don’t be anything like that!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 32:9 Tagairtí Cros

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.