The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, the ears of those who hear will listen (32:3). Wisdom and understanding are associated with the eyes and ears. Wisdom and skill characterize the mighty Marduk in the Enuma Elish epic, where his eyes and ears receive special attention. In creating Marduk, it is said of his father Ea: “He rendered him perfect and endowed him with double godhead. Greatly exalted was he above them, exceeding throughout. Perfect were his members beyond comprehension. . . . Four were his eyes, four were his ears. . . . Large were all four hearing organs, and the eyes, in like number, scanned all things.”781
In Akkadian, two words for “ear” (uznu, hasīsu) expand in meaning to include awareness and even wisdom. Tiglath-pileser wrote of acting “with the skilled ear (uzni) and vast ear (hasīsi) which noble Nudimmud, the gods’ sage, bestowed on me.”782 The process of the “civilization” and enlightenment of the wild man Enkidu in the Gilgamesh Epic begins with the ear as well.783