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

¹² The hearing ear and the seeing eye— the Lord has made them both.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made even both of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The hearing ear and the seeing eye–the Lord has made both of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

Common English Bible

¹² Ears to hear and eyes to see— the LORD made them both.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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?