Psalms 32:9
Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
- Jas 3:3 : 3 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;
- Jas 4:7-9 : 7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; 8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! 9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; 10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
- Job 35:11 : 11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
- Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
- Jer 8:6-7 : 6 I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle. 7 Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.
- Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God.
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2 for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;
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3 A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.
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17 A false thing `is' the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.
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18 At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
19 Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck `with' a mane?
20 Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting `is' terrible.
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29 Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.
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23 Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,
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30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
31 A horse is prepared for a day of battle, And the deliverance `is' of Jehovah!
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16 and had a rebuke of his own iniquity -- a dumb ass, in man's voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.
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10 Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.
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28 Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.
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12 And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
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16 And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
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31 A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king -- no rising up with him.
32 If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!
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8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
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25 Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.
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19 By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.
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30 and the ass saith unto Balaam, `Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden since `I was' thine unto this day? have I at all been accustomed to do to thee thus?' and he saith, `No.'
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16 `Only, he doth not multiply to himself horses, nor cause the people to turn back to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing Jehovah hath said to you, Ye do not add to turn back in this way any more.
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10 `Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.
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6 A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --
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9 In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
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4 `Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
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2 for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,
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1 To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked `is' before me.'
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3 An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
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28 For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.
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5 Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)
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4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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17 Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!
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15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
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22 And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
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3 In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
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10 The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.
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13 Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?
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31 thine ox `is' slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass `is' taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep `are' given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.
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24 Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
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7 And yet, ask, I pray thee, `One of' the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.
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19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,