OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Proverbs 20:12

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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,

the LORD has made even both of them.

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Proverbs 20:9–15

9

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.

I am clean and without sin”?

10

Differing weights and differing measures,

both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

11

Even a child makes himself known by his doings,

whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

12
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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,

the LORD has made even both of them.

13

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.

Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

14

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;

but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

15

There is gold and abundance of rubies,

but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

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