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17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

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29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds?

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

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13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(A)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(B)
15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(C)
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
    all the days that were formed for me,
    when none of them as yet existed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?(A)

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(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)(A)

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