Psalm 32:9
Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip is 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 sky?'
James 3:3
Now if we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, we guide their whole body.
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish, they do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right: no man repents him 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 thus, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
James 4:7-10
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.