22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

For in vanity he came, and in darkness he will go away, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

For he knew men of vanity, and he will see iniquity; and will he not understand?

And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.

Behold, all ye yourselves saw; and wherefore this, will ye breathe out vanity?

Saying to the king, Wickedness; (Belial) to nobles, Injustice.

The dross thou didst cause to cease, all the unjust of the earth: for this I loved thy testimonies.

This evil people, refusing to hear my words, going in the stubbornness of their heart, and they will go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and it shall be as this girdle which shall not profit for anything.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples.

Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: because all of them were for drosses, for this, behold me gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Once unprofitable to thee, but now more profitable to thee and to me:

Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver.

Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.

And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit

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;