~ as a thing ~ 23_ISA_41_12  Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee, they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. #, 46_1CO_08_07  Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge, for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. #,