“ The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. ”
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 Psalms 94:9 ).
Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
hearing ear, &c. Illustrations: Moses ( Exodus 4:11 ); Hagar ( Genesis 21:19 ); Elisha's servant ( 2 Kings 6:17 ); Lydia ( Acts 16:14 ).
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. The hearing ear and the seeing eye - Every good we possess comes from God; and we should neither use our eyes, nor our ears,...
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them - therefore He surely sees and hears all t...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
The Lord hath made even both of them. — And, therefore, they are to be used as He would have them. (Comp. our Lord’s constant warning, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”) The proverb may al...
CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Sobriety; Industry; Honesty Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it moc...
Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the s...
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;...
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. Ver. 12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, &c. ] There are those who have "ears to hear, and hear not; who have ey...
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the L ORD hath made even both of them. Note, 1. God is the God of nature, and all the powers and faculties of nature are derived from him and...
It is God alone who gives us our senses and natural faculties, and the use and exercise of them, and especially a power of employing them aright to see and observe the works of God, and to hear and r...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:6 . Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “ Much of the mere man one calls his goodness ,” i.e. , “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the us...
Proverbs 20:12 I. How the eye tells the brain of the picture which is drawn upon the back of the eye; how the brain calls up that picture when it likes these are two mysteries beyond all man's wis...
Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. Ears and no ears, eyes and no eyes 1. There are wise men in the world who will not admit that it was God who made the...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
v. 12. The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them; therefore He, the omniscient Creator of the senses, will demand a reckoning of their use on the Last Day.
Acts 26:18 ; Ephesians 1:17 ; Ephesians 1:18 ; Exodus 4:11 ; Matthew 13:13-16 ; Psalms 119:18 ; Psalms 94:9