Psalms 32:9
Be 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.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 26:3 : 3 ¶ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
- Jas 3:3 : 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
- Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
- Job 35:11 : 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
- Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jer 8:6-7 : 6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
- Jer 31:18 : 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.
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19 ¶ Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible.
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30 ¶ [There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
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32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
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8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?
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25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
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19 ¶ A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
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6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
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9 ¶ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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2 For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,
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3 ¶ In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
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13 Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?
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24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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19 ¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.