'Worthless' in the Bible
Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."
Now the sons of Eli were worthless men who did not know the LORD.
But certain worthless men said, “How can this one deliver us?” And they despised him and did not bring him any present. But he kept silent.
Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.
Saul and the troops spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, cattle, and choice animals, as well as the young rams and the best of everything else. They were not willing to destroy them, but they did destroy all the worthless and unwanted things.
Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”
My lord should pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name is Nabal, and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
but all the corrupt and worthless men among those who had gone with David argued, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give any of the plunder we recovered to them except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Despicable (12 instances)
- Slimy (2 instances)
- Ugly (7 instances)
- Unworthy (16 instances)
- Vile (70 instances)
- Worthless (150 instances)
- Wretched (22 instances)