Proverbs 20:12
Two of the things that Yahweh has created for us are ears to hear things and eyes to see things.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 4:11Then Yahweh said to him/me, “ You seem to forget who it is that makes people able to speak [RHQ]! Who is it that enables people to be unable to speak or unable to hear, or able to see or not to see? It is I, Yahweh [RHQ]!
Psalms 119:18Open my mind in order that I may know the wonderful things that are written in your laws.
Acts 26:18to help them to realize [MTY] what is true and to stop believing what is false [MET]. I am sending you to them so that they may let God control them and not let Satan control them any more. Then God will forgive their sins and will accept them as his people because they believe in me.’ That is what Jesus said to me.”
Ephesians 1:17I pray that God, who is the glorious/wonderful Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may cause his Spirit to make you wise, and that his Spirit will reveal God to you so that you may fully know him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:12
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The tree is known by its fruits, a man by his doings, even a young tree by its first fruits, a child by his childish things, whether his work be clean only, appearing good (the word is used ch. xvi. 2 ), or whether it be right, that is, really good. This intimates, 1. That children will discover themselves. One may soon see what their temper is, and which way their inclination leads them, according as their constitution is.… Read the whole commentary →