Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give to them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; and the LORD heard it: and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.