22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy testimonies.

This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

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

Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one ;