47 Bible Verses about Complaining

nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

And all the {Israelites} grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!

And all the community of the {Israelites} grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert.

And it happened, the people were like those who {complain of hardship} {in the hearing} of Yahweh, and Yahweh {became angry}, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.

Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?"

{Morning, noon and night} I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

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

The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest [this] miserable food."

According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, {a day for each year}, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.'

Brothers, do not complain against one another, in order that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors!

The riff-raff that [were] in their midst {had a strong desire}; and the {Israelites} turned back and also wept, and they said, "Who will feed us meat?

and [in the] morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, {for he hears} your grumblings against Yahweh, and what [are] we that you grumble against us?"

Now in these days, [as] the disciples were increasing [in number], a complaint arose by the {Greek-speaking Jews} against the {Hebraic Jews} because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution [of food].

And Moses said, "When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning {to fill up on}, {for he hears} your grumblings that you grumble against him--and what [are] we? Your grumblings [are] not against us but against Yahweh."

"How long [will I bear] this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the {Israelites} which {they are making} against me.

And the {Israelites} said to them, "{If only we had died} by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread {until we were full}, because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger."

And those who err [in] spirit will {acquire} understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the {Israelites} and because of their testing Yahweh [by] saying, "Is Yahweh in our midst or not?"

in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from {twenty years old} and above who grumbled against me.

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

Why should any living person complain about his sin?

We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.

Do all [things] without grumbling and disputing,

And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, "Give us water so that we can drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

But Jesus, [because he] knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?

[Be] hospitable to one another without complaining.

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

Though {I say}, 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

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

And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, 'Because of the hatred of Yahweh [toward] us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

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

"Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, {saying},

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

And [when they] saw [it], they all began to complain, saying, "He has gone in to find lodging with a man who is a sinner!"

Then Job answered and said,

The next day all the community of the {Israelites} grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!"

[Is] it not from the mouth of the Most High [that] disaster and good will come?

And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why {ever} did you bring us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?"

putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you [do the same].

These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.

Does anyone among you, [if he] has a matter against someone else, dare to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.