New Revised Standard Version
Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be stupid like horses and mules that must be led with ropes to make them obey."

New American Bible
Do not be like a horse or mule, without understanding; with bit and bridle their temper is curbed, else they will not come to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.

Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.

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Proverbs 26:3 A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

Jeremiah 31:18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

James 3:3 For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us: and we turn about their whole body.

James 4:7-10 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you. . . .

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Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 8:6,7 I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are all turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle. . . .