22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

“For He knows false men,
And He sees iniquity without investigating.

“But you smear with lies;
You are all worthless physicians.

“Behold, all of you have seen it;
Why then do you act foolishly?

Who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’
To nobles, ‘Wicked ones’;

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
In the midst of 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 the dross of silver. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both 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 the dross of silver.

“Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

Throw out 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 useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;