Proverbs 20:12 (BSB)

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:12: 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 (Psa 94:9), and the structure of both is admirable; and it is he that preserves to us the use of both; to...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:12: 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; but they are ears that hear not, and eyes that see not, Psa 115:5; but such as can hear and see are of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:12: Hence, of course, God will know all you do (Psa 94:9).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:12: Pro 20:12 12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye - Jahve hath created them both. Löwenstein, like the lxx: the ear hears and the eye sees - it is enough to refer to the contrary to Pro 20:10 and Pro 17:15.