10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We waited for peace, but no good came;
For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream
With water that is unreliable?

Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”