10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. 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 is lost. We are clean cut off.

When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

In all this Job did not sin, nor foolishly accuse God.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.