King James Version
Proverbs 20:12 in the King James Version says “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.”
Proverbs 20:12 · KJV
Divers weights , and divers measures , both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The hearing”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“and the seeing”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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