Psalms 32:9

WEB

⁹Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

KJV

⁹Be 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.

BSB

⁹Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.

FBV

⁹You mustn't be like a horse or a mule that doesn't know which way to go without a bit or a bridle. Otherwise they can't be controlled.”

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Extra References

Proverbs 26:3

³A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Jeremiah 4:22

²²“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

⁷Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 3:3

³Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Jeremiah 8:6-7

⁶I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. ⁷Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know the LORD’s law.

Job 35:11

¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Jeremiah 31:18

¹⁸“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God.