Proverbs 20:12
Good News Translation
The LORD has given us eyes to see with and ears to listen with.

New Revised Standard Version
The hearing ear and the seeing eye— the LORD has made them both.

Contemporary English Version
Hearing and seeing are gifts from the LORD.

New American Bible
The ear that hears, the eye that sees— the LORD has made them both.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Exodus 4:11 The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Psalm 119:18 Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

Matthew 13:13-16 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . .

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Ephesians 1:17,18 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him: . . .

Context
Wine is a Mocker
11By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right. 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.13Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:11
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Psalm 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.

Isaiah 29:18
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.

Proverbs 20:11
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