Psalm 32:9
Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
Job 35:11
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
James 3:3
Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak aright. No man repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turns to his course as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.
James 4:7-10
Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.