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12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees,
    Yahweh has made them both.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 20:12 Literally “also the two of them”

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

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22 Do not say “I will repay evil”;
    wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you.

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22 (A)Do not say, “I will [a]recompense evil”;
(B)Wait for the Lord, and He will save you.

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  1. Proverbs 20:22 repay

27 The lamp of Yahweh is the spirit[a] of humankind,
    he who searches every innermost part.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 20:27 Or “soul”
  2. Proverbs 20:27 Literally “parts of the inmost”

27 (A)The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the [a]inner depths of his heart.

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  1. Proverbs 20:27 Lit. rooms of the belly