Verse 9

Be ye not lyke a horse or lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding: whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle, lest they fall vpon thee.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 26:3 : 3 Unto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a brydle: and a rod to the fooles backe.
• Jas 3:3 : 3 Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them:
• Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Submit your selues therfore to God: but resist the deuyll, and he wyll flee from you. 8 Drawe nye to God, and he wyll drawe nye to you. Clense your handes ye sinners, and purifie your heartes ye double mynded. 9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse. 10 Humble your selues in the sight of the Lorde, and he shall lyft you vp.
• Job 35:11 : 11 Which teacheth vs more the the beastes of the earth, and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome.
• Jer 8:6-7 : 6 For I haue loked and considered, but there is no man that speaketh a good worde, there is no man that taketh repentaunce for his sinne, that wyll so muche say, what haue I done? but euerie man turneth to his owne course, like a fierce horse headlong to the battaile. 7 The Storke in the ayre knoweth his appointed tyme, the Turtle doue, the Swallowe and the Crane consider the tyme of their trauayle: but my people wyll not knowe the tyme of the punishment of the Lorde.
• Jer 31:18 : 18 Moreouer, I hearde Ephraim that was led away captiue complayne on this maner: O Lorde thou hast correct me, & thy chastenyng haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe, conuert thou me and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art my Lorde God.