63 Bible Verses about Complaints

Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions:

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

And the people shall be as complainers, and it was evil in the ears of Jehovah; and Jehovah will hear, and his anger will kindle, and the fire of Jehovah will burn among them and will consume in the extremity of the camp.

And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard.

And Moses will say, In Jehovah giving you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety; in Jehovah hearing your murmurings which ye murmured against him: and what are we? not against us your murmurings but against Jehovah.

And the people will speak against God, and against Moses, For what brought ye us up from Egypt to die in the desert? for no bread, and no water; and our soul loathed upon this light bread.

Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.

And Moses will say to Jehovah, For what hest thou done evil to thy servant? and for what did I not find grace in thine eyes, to put the debt of all this people upon me? Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers. Whence to me flesh to give to all this people? for they weep upon me, saying, Thou shalt give to us flesh and we shall eatread more.
I shall not be able to lift up alone all this people, for it is heavy for me. And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me.

Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me? For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint;read more.
And thou didst terrify me with dreams, and thou wilt make me afraid with visions: And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones. I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity. What is man that thou wilt magnify him? and that thou wilt set thy heart to him? And thou wilt review him for the mornings, and thou wilt try him for the moments. How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle? I sinned; what shall I do to thee, guarding men? wherefore didst thou set me for an assault to thee, and I shall be upon myself for a burden? And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

If my saying, I will forget my complaint, I will let go my face, and I will be cheerful: I was afraid of all my pains, I knew that thou wilt not acquit me.

I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened?

Also to-day is my complaint bitter: my hand heavy over my groaning,

Wherefore didst thou contend against him? for he will not answer all his words.

To the overseer; chanting to David. Hear, O God, my voice in my complaint: thou wilt guard my life from the fear of the enemy.

Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness. And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings. If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons.read more.
And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state. Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins. How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction. As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image. For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard.

I will pour out before him my complaint; I will announce my straits before him.

Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure? Thou didst plant them; they took root; they went on, also they made fruit: thou being near in their mouth, and far off from their reins. And thou, Jehovah, knew me: thou wilt see me, and thou didst try my heart with thee: pluck them out as sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.read more.
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbage of every field dry up from the evil of those dwelling in it the earth perished, and the birds; for they said, He shall not see our last Part

And it will be evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it will kindle to him. And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil. And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.

And the Pharisees, seeing, said to his disciples, Wherefore does your teacher eat with tax collectors and the sinful?

And the scribes and Pharisees having seen him eating with publicans and sinful, said to his disciples, Why does he eat and drink with publicans and sinful?

And the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Wherefore eat and drink ye with publicans and sinful?

And the Pharisees, seeing, said to him, Behold, thy disciples do what is not lawful to do in the sabbath.

And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they in the sabbaths what is not lawful

And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do in the sabbaths

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

Why does this thus speak blasphemies? who can remit sins but the one God

And behold, certain of the scribes said in themselves, This defames.

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them.

Then murmured the Jews about him, because he said, I am the bread having come down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? how then says he, That I have come down from heaven? Then answered Jesus and said to them, Murmur not with one another.

And in those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily service.

And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

And they will say to Moses, Because no tombs are in Egypt, didst thou take us to die in the desert? what this thou didst to us to bring us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word which we spake to thee in Egypt, saying, Desist from us, and we will serve the Egyptians? For it is good to us to serve Egypt rather than that we died in the desert

And the people will murmur against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

And Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If therefore it were truly any injustice or wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against the word, I should have borne with you: But if it is a question of the word, and names, and law, according to you, see ye yourselves; for I will not be judge of these.

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert

And ye will murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us he brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us.

And it was when their fathers or brothers shall come to contend against us, and we said to them, Be merciful to us with them, because we took not a man his wife in the battle; for ye gave not to them according to the time, ye shall transgress.

Thou wilt not give thy servant before a daughter of Belial, for from the abundance of my complaint and my grief I spoke even till now.

Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me? For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint;

If my saying, I will forget my complaint, I will let go my face, and I will be cheerful:

My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul

Attend to me and answer me; I shall flow down and make a noise in my complaint

I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence.

Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.

Our oxen bearing no breaking, and no coming forth, and no complaining in our broad places.

Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin?

And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone ? speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me.

And all they having seen, murmured, saying, That he entered in to rest with a sinful man.

These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.

And Moses will say to Jehovah, And the Egyptians heard, for thou didst bring up with thy strength this people from the midst of them; And they will say to those dwelling upon this land; they heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people who wert seen eye to eye; thou Jehovah and thy cloud stood over them, and in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. And didst thou kill this people as one man, and the nations spake who heard thy fame, saying,read more.
Because Jehovah will not be able to bring in this people to the land which he sware to them, he will slay them in the desert And now shall the strength of the Lord be great, as thou spakest, saying, Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth. Forgive now the sin of this people according to thy great kindness, and as thou didst lift up to this people, and even till now. And Jehovah will say, I pardoned according to thy word: But yet I live, and the glory of Jehovah shall fill all the earth. For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice. If they shall see the land which I sware to their fathers, and all despising me shall not see it And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it. And the Amalekites and the Canaanites will dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn ye; they shall remove for you into the desert the way of the sea of sedge. And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you: In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me. If ye shall come in to the land which I lifted up my hand for you to dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected And you, your carcasses shall fall in this desert And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal. I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die. And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land. And the men bringing forth evil slander of the land shall die by the blow before Jehovah. And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, lived, from those men going to search out the land. And Moses will speak these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will mourn greatly.

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur on the morrow against Moses, and against Aaron, saying, Ye killed the people of Jehovah. And it shall be in the gathering together of the assembly against Moses and against Aaron, and they shall turn towards the tent of appointment; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Jehovah will be seen. And Moses will go, and Aaron, before the tent of appointmentread more.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Lift up yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them as in a moment. And they will fall upon their faces. And Moses will say to Aaron, Take a censer and give upon it fire from off the altar, and put incense, and go quickly to the assembly, and expiate for them: for anger went forth from before Jehovah; for it began smiting. And Aaron will take as Moses spake, and he will run into the midst of the assembly; and behold, it began smiting among the people: and he will give incense and will expiate for the people. And he will stand between the dead and between the living; and the smiting will be withheld. And they dying in the smiting will be fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides they dying for the words of Korah. And Aaron will turn back to Moses to the door of the tent of appointment: and the smiting was withheld.

And they will come to Marah, and they will not be able to drink the waters of Marah, for they are bitter: for this he called the name bitterness. And the people will murmur against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will show him a tree, and he will cast into the waters, and the waters will become sweet: then he set to him a law and judgment, and there he tried him.

And the sons of Israel will come, all the assembly, to the desert of Zin, in the first month; and the people will dwell in Kadesh; and Miriam will die there and be buried there. And there was not water for the assembly: and they will gather together against Moses and against Aaron. And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah!read more.
And for what brought ye the gathering of Jehovah into this desert to die there, we and our cattle And for what brought ye us up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? Not a place of seed, and figs, and the vine and the pomegranate; and not water to drink. And Moses will go, and Aaron, from the face of the gathering to the door of the tent of appointment, and they will fall upon their faces: and the glory of Jehovah shall be seen to them. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Take the rod and gather the assembly together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes; and it gave water; and brought to them water from the rock, and gave drink to the assembly, and their cattle. And Moses will take the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron will gather together the gathering before the rock, and he will say to them, Hear, now, ye rebellious: from this rock shall we bring forth to you water? And Moses will lift up his hand and will smite the rock with the rod twice, and many waters will come forth, and the assembly will drink and their cattle. And Jehovah will say to Moses, and to Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to consecrate me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, for this, ye shall not bring in this gathering to the land which I gave to them. These the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he will be consecrated in them.

And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah? And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst? And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me.read more.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Pass over before the people and take with thee from the old men of Israel; and thy rod which thou didst strike with it the river, take in thy hand and go. And behold, I stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and strike upon the rock, and waters shall come forth from it, and the people drank. And Moses will do so before the eyes of the old men of Israel. And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?

And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died! And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?read more.
And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt And Moses will fall, and Aaron, upon their faces before all the gathering of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

And Moses will say to Jehovah, For what hest thou done evil to thy servant? and for what did I not find grace in thine eyes, to put the debt of all this people upon me? Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers. Whence to me flesh to give to all this people? for they weep upon me, saying, Thou shalt give to us flesh and we shall eatread more.
I shall not be able to lift up alone all this people, for it is heavy for me. And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee. And I came down and I spake with thee there; and I took from the spirit which is upon thee, and I put upon them, and they lifted up with thee in the debt of the people, and thou shalt not lift it up thyself alone. And thou shalt say to the people, Be ye consecrated for the morrow, and ye ate flesh: for ye wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall feed us with flesh? for it was good to us in Egypt; and Jehovah gave to you flesh, and ye ate. Not one day shall ye eat, and not two days, and not five days, and not ten days, and not twenty days; Even to a month of days, till when it shall come out from your nostrils, and it shall be to you for loathsomeness, because that ye rejected Jehovah who is in the midst of you, and ye shall weep before him, saying, Wherefore came we out of Egypt? And Moses will say, Six hundred thousand of foot the people which I am in the midst of them: and thou saidst, I will give flesh to them, and they shall eat a month of days. Shall the sheep and the oxen be slaughtered for them and suffice for them? and if he shall gather all the fish of the sea to them, and it suffice for them? And Jehovah will say to Moses, Shall the hand of Jehovah be cut off? Now shalt thou see my word shall be precious to thee or not And Moses will go forth, and will speak to the people the words of Jehovah; and he will gather the seventy men, of the old men of the people, and he will cause them to stand round about the tent And Jehovah will come down in the cloud, and will speak to him, and he will take from the spirit which is upon him, and will give upon the seventy men, the old men: and it shall be in the resting of the spirit upon them, and they shall prophesy, and they shall not cease. And two men remained in the camp, the name of the one Eldad, and the name of the second, Medad: and the spirit will encamp upon them; and they among those being written, and they will not go forth to the tent, and they will prophesy in the camp. And a young man will run and announce to Moses, and he will say, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. And Joshua, son of Nun, serving Moses from his chosen, will answer and say, My lord Moses, restrain them. And Moses will say to him, Thou envying for me; and who will give all the people of Jehovah prophets? when Jehovah will give his spirit upon them. And Moses will take himself into the camp, he and the old men of Israel. And a spirit removed from Jehovah and it will divide out the quails from the sea, and will cast upon the camp, as the way of a day hither, and the way of a day thither, round about the camp, and as two cubits upon the face of the earth. And the people will rise up all that day and all the night, and all the day of the morrow, and will gather the quails: the few gathered ten homers; and they will spread for themselves a spreading round about the camp. And the flesh yet between their teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah will smite upon them an exceeding great blow. And he will call the name of that place, The Graves of Longings, for there they buried the people longing. From the Graves of Longings the people removed to the enclosures, and they shall be in the enclosures.

And they will remove from mount Hor, the way of the sea of sedge, to encompass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people will be shortened in the way. And the people will speak against God, and against Moses, For what brought ye us up from Egypt to die in the desert? for no bread, and no water; and our soul loathed upon this light bread. And Jehovah will send upon the people deadly serpents, and they will bite the people; and much people will die from Israelread more.
And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.