Psalms 32:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be controlled with bit and bridle, lest they come near you.

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  • Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back.
  • Jas 3:3 : 3 Behold, we put bits in horses' mouths so that they may obey us; and we turn their whole body.
  • Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Jer 8:6-7 : 6 I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle. 7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle dove, the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the LORD.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

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    8I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

  • Jas 3:2-3
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    2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

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  • Prov 26:3-4
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    3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back.

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  • Ps 33:17
    73%

    17A horse is a vain hope for safety; neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.

  • Job 39:18-20
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    71%

    18When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

    19Have you given the horse its strength? Have you clothed its neck with a mane?

    20Can you make it leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is terrifying.

  • Isa 37:29
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    29Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

  • Prov 21:30-31
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    30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against the LORD.

    31The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but safety is of the LORD.

  • 2 Pet 2:16
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    16But was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

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    10He does not delight in the strength of the horse: he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

  • 2 Kgs 19:28
    69%

    28Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

  • Job 11:12
    69%

    12For hollow man would be wise, though man is born like a wild donkey's colt.

  • Isa 30:16
    69%

    16But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

  • Prov 30:31-32
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    69%

    31A greyhound, a male goat also, and a king against whom there is no rising up.

    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

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    8Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 22:25
    69%

    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

  • Prov 29:19
    69%

    19A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understands, he will not respond.

  • Num 22:30
    69%

    30And the donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, upon which you have ridden ever since I became yours until this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.

  • Deut 17:16
    69%

    16But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, 'You shall not return that way again.'

  • Deut 22:10
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    10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

  • Ps 92:6
    69%

    6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • Prov 23:9
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    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • Deut 25:4
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    4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

  • Exod 9:2
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    3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

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    68%

    28For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

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    5If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

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    5Do not lift your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.

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    4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

  • Ps 135:17
    68%

    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

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    22So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

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    3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

  • Prov 12:10
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    10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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    67%

    13Who can uncover the face of his garment? Or who can come to him with a double bridle?

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    67%

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

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    67%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Job 12:7
    67%

    7But ask now the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you:

  • Prov 23:19
    67%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.