English Standard Version
If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

American Standard Version
Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Berean Study Bible
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

English Revised Version
Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

King James Bible
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

World English Bible
Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Young's Literal Translation
lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

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