Psalm 32:9
Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come 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] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
James 3:3
And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man [who] regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them [are] turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you [are] Yahweh my God.
James 4:7-10
Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.