~ as though they were ~ 18_JOB_39_16  She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers, her labour is in vain without fear; #, 45_ROM_04_17  (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. #,