The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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Gill's Exposition
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,.... There may be an ear that hears not, and an eye that seeth not, and which men may make; the painter can paint an ear and an eye, and a carver can carve both;…
Barnes' Notes
Not only do we owe the gifts of sight and hearing to Yahweh, but He, being the giver, will also call us to account for them (compare Psa 94:9).
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
The hearing ear or, The ear heareth, and the eye seeth. Οὖς ἀκούει καὶ ὀφθαλμὸς ὁρᾷ, LXX.
The proverb is designed to be a seed of thought and to suggest many inferences, such as: How great must the…
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