Job 41:13

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

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.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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