Proverbs 20:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The hearing ear and the seeing eye— the Lord has made them both.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made even both of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The hearing ear and the seeing eye–the Lord has made both of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

Common English Bible

Ears to hear and eyes to see— the LORD made them both.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 20:12 Cross References

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Psalm 94:9

He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Proverbs 25:12

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and freed from gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?