<p>3:12 <em>For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears to their prayers;</em><i> but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil</i><em>- </em>The eyes and ears of the Lord are contrasted to His <em>face</em> which is &quot;against them that do evil&quot;. Eyes and ears are part of a face. The point may be that the Lord is highly sensitive to the prayers of the righteous; but that deep sensitivity is not for the wicked, but His general 'face' is against them. We cannot always pray, and some cannot verbalize things well. This doesn't mean that their prayers are not heard. The Lord's eyes and ears are paralleled here. He sees their situations as prayers which He hears. Just as He 'heard' the cry of Abel's blood, or the cries of workers who weren't paid for their work in James 5.</p>