Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 20:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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Role in This Section
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 20:10–13
Read Proverbs 20:12 with 20:10–13. Read alone, “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD”; by 20:13, it uses two-part parallelism to place “Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty” beside “open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread”. Together the unit concentrates on reverent accountability before the LORD, truthful testimony, honest measures, and integrity, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Why It Needs Context
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them”. Its force depends on the complete instruction, list, comparison, or cluster in Proverbs 20:10–13; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 20:10–13 — Reverent accountability before the LORD — Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Proverbs 20:10–13, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 20:10-20:13
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