Psalms 32:9
Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule, which vnderstand not: whose mouthes thou doest binde with bit and bridle, least they come neere thee.
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- Prov 26:3 : 3 Vnto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a bridle, and a rod to the fooles backe.
- Jas 3:3 : 3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.
- Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you. 8 Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe nere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse. 10 Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.
- Job 35:11 : 11 Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.
- Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
- Jer 8:6-7 : 6 I hearkened and heard, but none spake aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, What haue I done? euery one turned to their race, as the horse rusheth into the battell. 7 Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lorde.
- Jer 31:18 : 18 I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God.
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8 I will instruct thee, and teache thee in the way that thou shalt goe, and I will guide thee with mine eye.
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2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.
3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.
- Prov 26:3-42 verses75%
3 Vnto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a bridle, and a rod to the fooles backe.
4 Answer not a foole according to his foolishnes, least thou also be like him.
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17 A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.
- Job 39:18-203 verses71%
18 (39:21) When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
19 (39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
20 (39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
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29 Because thou ragest against me, and thy tumult is come vnto mine eares, therefore will I put mine hooke in thy nostrels, and my bridle in thy lips, and wil bring thee backe againe the same way thou camest.
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23 Be diligent to know ye state of thy flocke, and take heede to the heardes.
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30 There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.
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16 But he was rebuked for his iniquitie: for the dumme beast speaking with mans voyce, forbade the foolishnesse of the Prophet.
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10 He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.
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28 And because thou ragest against me, and thy tumult is come vp to mine eares, I will put mine hooke in thy nostrels, and my bridle in thy lippes, and will bring thee backe againe the same way thou camest.
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12 Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
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16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.
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31 A lusty grayhound, and a goate, and a King against whom there is no rising vp.
32 If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.
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8 Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
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25 Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
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19 A seruant will not be chastised with words: though he vnderstand, yet he will not answere.
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30 And the asse saide vnto Balaam, Am not I thine asse, which thou hast ridden vpon since thy first time vnto this day? haue I vsed at any time to doe thus vnto thee? Who said, Nay.
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16 In any wise he shall not prepare him many horses, nor bring the people againe to Egypt, for to encrease the number of horses, seeing the Lord hath sayd vnto you, Ye shal henceforth goe no more againe that way.
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10 Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together.
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6 An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,
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9 Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
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4 Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.
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2 But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
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1 To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.
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3 The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.
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28 For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.
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5 If thou hast runne with the footemen and they haue wearied thee, then howe canst thou match thy selfe with horses? and if thou thoughtest thy selfe safe in a peaceable lande, what wilt thou do in the swelling of Iorden?
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5 Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.
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4 For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
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17 They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.
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15 My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
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22 So foolish was I & ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
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1 Woe vnto them that goe downe into Egypt for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy one of Israel, nor seeke vnto the Lord.
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3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.
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10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the mercies of the wicked are cruell.
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13 (41:4) Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
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31 Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eate thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shalbe giuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal rescue them for thee.
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24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
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7 Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:
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19 O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.