⁹ Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, Who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

³ A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools!

¹¹ Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

³ Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

⁹ Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

²² For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

⁶ I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.