Proverbs 20:12
Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.
BSB
ASV
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
KJV
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 119:18Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
leads to
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.
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…
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
Through
Exodus 4:11And 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?
leads to
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”
