22 Bible Verses about Useless People

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.

And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;