Psalm 32:9
Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
Job 35:11
Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
James 3:3
lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
Jeremiah 8:6-7
I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.
James 4:7-10
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;