Psalms 32:9
Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
10Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Cross References
Job 30:11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
Job 41:13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
James 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 32:8-11
Devout Confidence. 7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord , mercy shall compass him about. 11 Be glad in… Read the whole commentary →