Psalm 32:9
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
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
If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.
James 4:7-10
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.