'Unproductive' in the Bible

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

Our own people should also learn to make good deeds a priority when urgent needs arise, so they won't be unproductive.

For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.