22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness.

For he knows mankind's deceitfulness; when he sees iniquity, won't he himself consider it?

"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

Can one say to a king, "You're vile!' or to nobles, "You're wicked!'?

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees.

This evil people that refuses to listen to my words, that stubbornly pursues their own desires, and that follows other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt that is not good for anything.

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

You have reduced us to scum and garbage among the nations.

"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace the dross left over from smelting silver. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "Because all of you have become dross, watch out! I'm going to gather all of you at the center of Jerusalem,

Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful both to you and to me.

"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace the dross left over from smelting silver.

"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm wither and his right eye be completely blind."

Throw this useless servant into the darkness outside! In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"

All have turned away. They have become completely worthless. No one shows kindness, not even one person!

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.

This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless?

They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

while the field is the world. The good seed are those who belong to the kingdom, while the weeds are those who belong to the evil one.