47 Bible Verses about Complaining

neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, 'O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp.

Therefore, thou and all thy company who are met are against Jehovah; and Aaron, what is he, that ye murmur against him?'

Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,

And the people murmur against Moses, saying, 'What do we drink?'

and the people speak against God, and against Moses, 'Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to die in a wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul hath been weary of this light bread.'

by the number of the days in which ye spied the land, forty days, -- a day for a year, a day for a year -- ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, 'Who doth give us flesh?

and morning -- and ye have seen the honour of Jehovah, in His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah, and what are we, that ye murmur against us?'

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,

And Moses saith, 'In Jehovah's giving to you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety -- in Jehovah's hearing your murmurings, which ye are murmuring against Him, and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.'

'Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard;

and the sons of Israel say unto them, 'Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the 'strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their 'trying' Jehovah, saying, 'Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick;

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

and the people strive with Moses, and say, 'Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, 'What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'

And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, 'Doth this stumble you?

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Though I say, 'I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?

If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite -- to destroy us;

And John did answer him, saying, 'Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

'And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,

Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

and having seen it, they were all murmuring, saying -- 'With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

And Job answereth and saith: --

And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur, on the morrow, against Moses and against Aaron, saying, 'Ye -- ye have put to death the people of Jehovah.'

From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, 'Why is this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.