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12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Proverbs 20:12

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Matthew Henry

(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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