22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.

For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.

For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.

"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

the one who says to a king, 'You worthless man,' to noblemen, 'You wicked man,'

You remove all the wicked of [the] earth [like] dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.

All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became! Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become [as] silver dross, therefore look! I [am] gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,

Once he [was] useless to you, but now [he is] useful to you and to me,

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became!

"Woe, my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! [May] a sword [fall] on his arm and on {his right eye}! May his arm wither completely and {his right eye} be utterly blinded!"

And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness--in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one.

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?

And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

and the field is the world. And the good seed--these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.