12 (A)The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
    (B)the Lord has made them both.

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12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
the Lord made them both.(A)

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22 Do not say, (A)“I will repay evil”;
    (B)wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

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22 Don’t say, “I will avenge this evil!”(A)
Wait on the Lord,(B) and He will rescue you.(C)

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27 (A)The spirit[a] of man is the lamp of the Lord,
    (B)searching all (C)his innermost parts.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:27 Hebrew breath

27 The Lord’s lamp sheds light on a person’s life,[a]
searching the innermost parts.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:27 Lit breath
  2. Proverbs 20:27 Lit the chambers of the belly