Verse 9

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Referenced Verses

• Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
• Jas 3:3 : 3 Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.
• Jas 4:7-9 : 7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. 9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. 10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
• Job 35:11 : 11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
• Jer 8:6-7 : 6 I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight. 7 Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
• Jer 31:18 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.