22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider it!

And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,

Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why is this -- ye are altogether vain?

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.

This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.

Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been, Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,

who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,

The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,

Woe to the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword is on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,