WORTHLESSNESS, good-for-nothingness — possibly beli-ya'al, 'without profit / no use.' It brands a person as ruinous and lawless: 'sons of beliyaal' are scoundrels (the men of Gibeah, Judges 19-20; Eli's sons, 1 Samuel 2:12; the false witnesses against Naboth, 1 Kings 21:10). ⚠ Nahum 1:11 calls the Assyrian king 'a counselor of beliyaal' — a schemer of worthlessness against God. And the word has a long afterlife: over the centuries beliyaal hardened from a quality into a proper NAME, so that by the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament 'BELIAL' is a title for Satan himself — 'what agreement has Christ with Belial?' (2 Corinthians 6:15). This translation keeps the earlier, common-noun sense ('worthlessness') and flags the name it became; the Douay, reading it as the name already, prints 'Belial.' → first discussed at Nahum 1:11