Yakobus 3:3

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Kita mengenakan kekang pada mulut kuda, sehingga ia menuruti kehendak kita, dengan jalan demikian kita dapat juga mengendalikan seluruh tubuhnya.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Kita mengenakan kekang pada mulut kuda, sehingga ia menuruti kehendak kita, dengan jalan demikian kita dapat juga mengendalikan seluruh tubuhnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau kita mengenakan kang di mulut kuda supaya ia menurut perintah kita, lalu kita belokkan tujuan segenap badannya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

James 1:26, 2 Kings 19:28, Psalms 32:9, Psalms 39:1, Isaiah 37:29

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:3 - above Job 41:13 - double

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths,.... By this, and the following simile, the apostle not only expresses the smallness of that member of the body, which is like the bit in the horse's mouth, and the helm of a ship, but the good use of it, and the great influence it has over the whole body. Horses are without understanding, and need direction in what path to go, and are strong, and would be truly and ungovernable unless bits and bridles were put into their mouths:

that they may obey us; and go in the way we would have them:

and we turn about the whole body of the horse, this way, and that way, as is thought best, by the help of the bit and bridle; and of such use is the tongue to the natural body, that being bridled itself, bridles, directs, and governs the whole body; and its influence on bodies, and societies of men, and Christians, is like that of the bit in the horse's mouth; who, like horses, would be unruly and ungovernable, were it not for the force of language, the power of words, and strength of argument.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, we put bits in the horses” mouths ... - The meaning of this simple illustration is, that as we control a horse by the bit - though the bit is a small thing - so the body is controlled by the tongue. He who has a proper control over his tongue can govern his whole body, as he who holds a bridle governs and turns about the horse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse James 3:3. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths — In order to show the necessity of regulating the tongue, to which St. James was led by his exhortation to them who wished to thrust themselves into the teacher's office, supposing, because they had the gift of a ready flow of speech, that therefore they might commence teachers of Divine things; he proceeds to show that the tongue must be bridled as the horse, and governed as the ships; because, though it is small, it is capable of ruling the whole man; and of irritating and offending others.