47 Bible Verses about Complaining

nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?"

Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.

And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!

and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?"

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him--what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD."

"How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Do all things without grumbling or questioning,

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?

Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,'

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?

"If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together,

And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the LORDhated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us."

"And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,

Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,

And when they saw it, they all grumbled, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

Then Job answered and said:

But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD.