Quotes about Control
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- Job 38:31
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
- Job 38:35
Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
- Job 39:9
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
- Job 39:10
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
- Job 41:2
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
- Job 41:5
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
- Job 41:13
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- Psalm 2:9
They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
- Psalm 12:4
Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
- Psalm 19:13
For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.
- Psalm 22:28
Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
- Psalm 32:9