Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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- Matthew 13:13–15 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, 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.