Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
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- Matthew 13:13–15 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
- Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- Psalm 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.