Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!
KJV
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
ASV
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!