12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. …
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12)Note, 1. God is the God of nature, and all the powers and faculties of nature are derived from him and depend upon him, and therefore are to be employed for him. It was he that formed the eye and planted the ear (Ps. 94:9), and the structure of both is admirable; and it is he that preserves to us the use of both; to his providence we owe it that our eyes are seeing eyes and our ears hearing ears .…
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