Proverbs 20:12

Modern

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Aurem audientem, et oculum videntem: Dominus fecit utrumque.

Hebrew

English

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

The ability to watch and learn from experience is a special gift.

Matthew 13:13–16
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
Psalm 94:9
He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Exodus 4:11
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Ephesians 1:17–18
…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Acts 26:18
…to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’