10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire that cometh to pass is a tree of life.

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off!

For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail?

In all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed anything unseemly to God.

And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.