22 Bible Verses about Useless People

Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Who in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;