'Useless' in the Bible

and they gave him 70 silver coins from the temple that they had built to Baal-berith. Abimelech hired some worthless and useless men, who followed him

Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.

Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them [anything] from the plunder which we recovered, {except} each [man may take] his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"

Useless troublemakers soon gathered around him, who turned out to be too strong for Rehoboam, because he was young, timid, and unable to withstand them.

“For He recognizes and knows false and worthless men,And He sees wickedness, will He not consider it?

Should he argue with useless talkor with words that serve no good purpose?

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Theirs is a useless plea God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention.

I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh.

They will vanish like water that flows by;they will aim their useless arrows.

they reeled and staggered like drunken men,and all their skill was useless.

Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.

You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,For their deceitfulness is useless.

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds,

Useless legs to the lame that's what a proverb quoted by a fool is.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

Stop bringing useless offerings.Your incense is detestable to Me.New Moons and Sabbaths,and the calling of solemn assemblies—I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

to Egypt, which gives help that is worthless and useless. Therefore I call her, "Rahab, who just sits still.'"

So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;It will not return to Me void (useless, without result),Without accomplishing what I desire,And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”The experts in the law no longer knew Me,and the rulers rebelled against Me.The prophets prophesied by Baaland followed useless idols.

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?(But they were not gods!)Yet My people have exchanged their Gloryfor useless idols.

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'

The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

Yet our eyes failed,Looking for help was useless;In our watching we have watchedFor a nation that could not save.

As a result, Jerusalem will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

If it was useless before it was burned, now that it's been burned and charred through, it's even more useless!

Israel is [as if] swallowed up [by enemies];They are now among the nationsLike a vessel [of cheap, coarse pottery] that is useless.

“Those who regard and follow worthless idolsTurn away from their [living source of] mercy and lovingkindness.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?