Psalm 32:9
Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
James 3:3
Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
James 4:7-10
Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.