Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid ¹  in your sight?

Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys ¹  the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing. ¹ 

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown ¹  to them!

A dispute also started ¹  among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. ² 

Although ¹  Herod ²  wanted to kill John, ³  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, ¹  and yet true;

A club is counted ¹  as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts ¹  the coastlands ²  as if they were dust.

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like ¹  broken clay pots, made by a potter. ² 

And you did not stop there, O God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. ¹  You have revealed to me what men long to know, ²  O Lord God.

These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; ¹  the Moabites call them Emites.

However, ¹  because ²  I called but you refused to listen, ³  because ⁴  I stretched out my hand ⁵  but no one paid attention,

A centurion ¹  there ²  had a slave ³  who was highly regarded, ⁴  but who was sick and at the point of death.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. ¹  Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel. ² 

And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals ¹  in the things they boast about.

Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted ¹  the money paid for us! ²