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

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

What is bent ¹  cannot be straightened, ²  and what is missing ³  cannot be supplied. ⁴ 

They treat me like ¹  those who descend into the grave. ²  I am like a helpless man, ³ 

If someone blesses ¹  his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, ²  it will be counted as a curse to him. ³ 

You counted the houses in Jerusalem, ¹  and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall. ² 

Your servant stands ¹  among your chosen people; ²  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

King Cyrus of Persia entrusted ¹  them to ²  Mithredath ³  the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar ⁴  the leader of the Judahite exiles. ⁵ 

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy ¹  to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. ² 

This means ¹  it is not the children of the flesh ²  who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Your mind will recall the terror you experienced, ¹  and you will ask yourselves, ²  “Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs the money? Where is the one who counts the towers?” ³ 

Everything was verified ¹  by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.

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But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

Abram believed ¹  the Lord, and the Lord ²  considered his response of faith ³  as proof of genuine loyalty. ⁴ 

So Moses numbered them according to the word ¹  of the Lord, just as he had been commanded. ² 

Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,

This brought him a reward, an eternal gift. ¹ 

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.” ¹