Psalm 32:9
Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
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
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
Jeremiah 4:22
For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned in their own courses, as the horse rushes into the battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.
James 4:7-10
Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.