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Proverbs 20:12

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 20:12 in other translations

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

Proverbs 20:12 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 20:12 in context

  1. 10Differing weights and differing measures,
    both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  2. 11Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
    whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
  3. 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
    Yahweh has made even both of them.
  4. 13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
    Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
  5. 14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
    but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.