10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Ain As for us, our eyes have failed in seeking our vain help; in our watching we have watched for people that cannot save us.

Then he said unto me, Son of man, all these bones are the house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones have dried, and our hope is lost, and in ourselves we are totally cut off.

When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Why was my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar and as waters that fail?

In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with folly.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.