10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled [is] a tree of life.

Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.

And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'

Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

Why is my pain endless, and my wound incurable? It refuses to become healed. Truly you are to me like a deceitful [brook], waters [that] are not trustworthy.

In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.

And this {was greatly displeasing} to Jonah, and {he became furious}. And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity. And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"