Proverbs 20:12

World English Bible (2000)

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:9 : 9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
  • Exod 4:11 : 11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?
  • Ps 119:18 : 18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
  • Matt 13:13-16 : 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive: 15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.' 16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • Eph 1:17-18 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 94:9
    77%

    9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

  • Isa 42:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

    19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

    20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

  • Isa 32:3
    74%

    3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

  • Job 13:1
    73%

    1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

  • Job 29:11
    73%

    11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

  • Prov 15:3
    72%

    3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

  • Prov 20:11
    71%

    11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

  • Prov 22:2
    71%

    2 The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

  • Job 42:5
    70%

    5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

  • Isa 43:8
    70%

    8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

  • Matt 13:16
    70%

    16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

  • Ps 34:15
    70%

    15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

  • 1 Cor 12:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

    17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

  • Isa 29:18
    70%

    18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

  • Jer 5:21
    69%

    21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • Isa 41:20
    69%

    20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

  • Exod 4:11
    69%

    11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?

  • Prov 29:13
    69%

    13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

  • Deut 29:4
    68%

    4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

  • Prov 22:12
    68%

    12 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

  • Job 10:4
    68%

    4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

  • Job 12:9
    68%

    9 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

  • Job 12:11
    67%

    11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

  • Job 34:21
    67%

    21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

  • Prov 20:13
    67%

    13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 16:4
    67%

    4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

  • Matt 13:9
    67%

    9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Matt 20:33
    67%

    33 They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."

  • Prov 22:9
    67%

    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Eccl 2:14
    67%

    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

  • Isa 35:5
    67%

    5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

  • Jer 32:19
    67%

    19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  • Eccl 1:8
    67%

    8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  • Job 34:3
    67%

    3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

  • Matt 11:15
    67%

    15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • Prov 15:31
    66%

    31 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

  • Ps 119:18
    66%

    18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

  • Isa 11:3
    66%

    3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

  • Isa 64:4
    66%

    4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

  • Prov 21:2
    66%

    2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

  • 1 Cor 12:21
    66%

    21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

  • Ps 146:8
    66%

    8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

  • Ps 135:16-17
    2 verses
    66%

    16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Ps 115:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see.

    6 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell.

  • 1 Pet 3:12
    66%

    12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."