Psalms 32:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

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    8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

  • Jas 3:2-3
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    2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

    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.

  • Prov 26:3-4
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    3 A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.

    4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

  • Ps 33:17
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    17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

  • Job 39:18-20
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    18 Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

    19 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

    20 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

  • Isa 37:29
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    29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • Prov 21:30-31
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    30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

    31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

  • 2 Pet 2:16
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    16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.

  • Ps 147:10
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    10 He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
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    28 Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

  • Job 11:12
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    12 And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

  • Isa 30:16
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    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

  • Prov 30:31-32
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    31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

    32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 22:25
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    25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

  • Prov 29:19
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    19 A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.

  • Num 22:30
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    30 And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.

  • Deut 17:16
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    16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

  • Deut 22:10
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    10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

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    9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

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    4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • Exod 9:2
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    2 For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,

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    3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Jer 12:5
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    5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

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    5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

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    17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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    22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

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    1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

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    3 In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

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    10 An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

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    13 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.

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    31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

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    24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

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    7 But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

  • Prov 23:19
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    19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.