22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.

For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,'

All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.

"Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!"

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,