A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

I hearkened and heard, {but} they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {thus}; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed {to the yoke}: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou {art} the LORD my God.

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

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion {is} vain.

So foolish {was} I, and ignorant: I was {as} a beast before thee. {ignorant: Heb. I knew not} {before Heb. with}

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself {thus}; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed {to the yoke}: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou {art} the LORD my God.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod {is} for the back of him that is void of understanding. {of understanding: Heb. of heart}

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Who can discover the face of his garment? {or} who can come {to him} with his double bridle? {with: or, within}

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and {there shall be} a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing {them} to err.

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.